Investors have already decided that Europe’s central banks are going to raise their key interest rates in an effort to keep a lid on inflation as energy prices surge in the wake of the U.S. and ...

The nation’s fertility rates hit record lows in 2025 as childbearing continued to shift toward older women, according to new federal data released Thursday. For the sixth straight year, the number of ...

Before the pandemic, roughly half of counties had kindergarten vaccination rates high enough to prevent measles outbreaks. After the pandemic, many counties increased their vaccination rates, reaching ...

It’s a good bet that interest rates will be lower in coming months — notwithstanding the ultimate resolution of the war in Iran, beyond the temporary cease-fire agreement, and the extraordinary ...

Mortgage rates are sitting at 6.38%, according to the latest Freddie Mac data — which is slightly elevated from earlier this year, but still lower than a year prior (in January 2025, rates climbed ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has wrapped up his two-day visit to Capitol Hill. Powell told the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday that he expects interest-rate cuts to come this ...

The Bureau of Economic Analysis released its personal consumption expenditures price index data for September earlier today. Here is the report, at a glance: Core YoY: 2.8% increase, in line with ...

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Westpac Group's Luci Ellis explains why she expects the RBA to hike the cash rate to 4.85% by mid-August.