Do they wait for lower rates in the future or borrow what they need today? It’s a question of cost versus opportunity.

A report out Thursday from the real estate data firm ATTOM finds that a home, and all its related costs, now eat up about 34% of the average wage nationwide.

The Federal Reserve and others will update monetary policy, balancing inflation with the recession risk. Investors hope for rate cuts.

Consumers are now more upbeat, convinced inflation is heading down, according to the University of Michigan Consumer Survey for December.

The music streaming service just announced its third round of layoffs this year after previous years of intensive borrowing.

The Institute for Supply Management’s Purchasing Managers Index showed worse-than-expected performance for manufacturing, but construction growth shone.

Businesses don’t buy ’em unless they think they need ’em.

High mortgage rates and building costs have reversed the pandemic trend of bigger houses.

As the Fed wraps up its two-day meeting, economists are looking to the Treasury Department for details on how the federal government plans to borrow money through the end of the year.

The Bank of Japan’s “yield curve control policy” could be on its way out as central banks around the world raise rates to beat inflation.