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China is grappling with a depressed job market, a struggling property sector, weak consumer spending, geopolitical tensions, and debt.
Conflicts of interest may be costing retirement savers $5 billion a year in fixed-index annuities, an investigation found.
News Corp subsidiary REA Group abandoned its monthlong quest to take control of Rightmove, which rejected four “unattractive” bids.
Nearly 40% of 32 economists cited a “monetary policy mistake” as the “greatest downside risk to the U.S. economy over the next 12 months.”
Regulators worry that undisciplined and inexperienced investors are taking on way too much risk in the country’s overheated stock markets.
Zillow will be adding climate risk scores and insurance information to for-sale listings on its online marketplace.
The OECD upgraded its outlook for global economic growth, noting slowing inflation, central bank rate cuts, and falling energy prices.
After two months of a post-election stalemate, French president Emmanuel Macron appointed a government Saturday.
The Federal Reserve finally slashed interest rates, delivering a half-point cut — the high end of consensus expectations.
China will see middling returns into 2025 according to new data and a bank analyst report, which paints a grim future for its consumer sector.
Both manufacturing and construction spending came in softer than expected. The downbeats stoked fears of a downturn.
Buying a home is expensive. And so is owning one. In the era of high mortgage rates and soaring expenses, is homeownership still worth it?
Fitch Ratings downgraded the debt of the Maldives for the second time in just over two months, suggesting it’s likely to default on bonds.
The DoJ launched an antitrust lawsuit against Thoma Bravo’s RealPage for allegedly helping property managers conspire to drive up rent.
Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Kansas City came to a halt after locking out 9,300 employees over a contract dispute.
Wells Fargo said Tuesday that it will sell most of its commercial mortgage servicing business to Trimont, a global loan services provider.
The economic impact on host cities of political conventions’ like the DNC and RNC are not quite as advertised
The UK’s top-notch schools are a premier destination for international students, and education is a big part of the economy.
As mortgage rates drop, current homeowners are using the opportunity to refinance their mortgages at the fastest pace since 2022.
Tens of billions of dollars’ worth of apartment building loans and mortgages are at risk of distress as of the end of the second quarter.