Mortgage rates fell again this week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Wednesday. Freddie Mac's latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, released Wednesday, showed the average rate on the benchmark ...

With mortgage rates expected to drift toward 6% in the coming year, 10 U.S. markets could see a major boost as buyers regain purchasing power. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) recently ...

Mortgage applications fell 3.8% last week, influenced by rising interest rates after the Federal Open Market Committee meeting. The refinance share reached 59%, the highest since September, while ...

Taiwan's population declined for the 23rd straight month in November, with almost twice as many deaths as births—putting it on track to match the previously reported record low. Birth rates are ...

The Fed cut interest rates by a quarter point, as expected, but there were dissents in the final vote. If we look all together, we expect two rate cuts next year, which is one more than the Fed. A ...

NEW YORK, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Major stock indexes jumped while U.S. Treasury yields declined on ‌Wednesday after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates as expected and ‌investors remained hopeful about ...

The Fed is widely expected to deliver a quarter-point cut at its Dec. 9-10 meeting, with futures markets putting the odds near 90% according to Reuters, which would ...

Kennedy issued a warning at a White House press briefing in October, arguing that the fertility rate is not high enough to ensure the American population remains stable. The rate dropped to a historic ...

Let’s look at some converging lines of population numbers. The United States appears to be trending toward a new club of nations: those in which annual deaths routinely outnumber births. Some ...

A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same for everything from bubbles to spaghetti. When you ...