Home prices, mortgage rates remain high
While inflation has shown signs of cooling, mortgage rates and home prices are still stubbornly high, making it challenging for many Americans to buy homes. Elise Preston reports.
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While inflation has shown signs of cooling, mortgage rates and home prices are still stubbornly high, making it challenging for many Americans to buy homes. Elise Preston reports.
The Federal Reserve marked its first rate decision of 2024 by keeping its benchmark interest rate unchanged.
It has been a blockbuster year for investors, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite all up with double-digit gains. However, the Federal Reserve battled the worst inflation in decades with several rate hikes, and 2023 marked the worst banking crisis since 2008, with three major institutions collapsing. Astrid Martinez reports.
Oil prices rose 5% Friday amid the war between Israel and Hamas. J.D. Durkin, host of "The Street," joins CBS News to discuss what the spike means for U.S. investors.
Interest rates for a home loan are continuing to soar, driving many aspiring property owners out of the market.
Although inflation has slowed sharply, Fed officials are again tapping the brakes to ensure the economy slows.
Silicon Valley Bank failed because regulators were far too slow to take action, San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Mary Daly said Monday in her first extended remarks about the collapse.
Americans are still spending as inflation has finally shown signs of cooling. Still, there are some troubling economic signs. Mark Strassmann breaks it all down.
After 10 straight interest-rate hikes, borrowers face sharply higher costs for credit cards, mortgages and other loans.
With inflation finally falling from last year's record highs, the Federal Reserve declined to raise key interest rates for the first time in 15 months. Natalie Brand reports on how the move will affect consumers and whether we could see more rate hikes in the future.
The U.S. averted disaster by raising the debt ceiling, but a mild recession is still possible even as job numbers remain hot, according to the head of Bank of America. Mark Strassmann breaks down how the U.S. economy is doing.
Latest hike brings the U.S central bank's benchmark interest rate to its highest level in 16 years.
FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg estimated about $20 billion would be needed to cover the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.
Credit card debt among Americans is nearing the trillion-dollar mark. And with the recent interest rate hike, Americans can look forward to higher interest rates. Tanya Rivero has the latest.
The U.S. central bank eases up its efforts to curb inflation amid concerns about banking industry risks.
The Federal Reserve is facing stinging criticism for missing what observers say were clear signs that Silicon Valley Bank was at high risk of collapsing into the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history.
After last week's collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, President Joe Biden urged calm and said there would be accountability. Meanwhile, account holders lined up at bank headquarters to withdraw their money after the federal government guaranteed deposits. Nicole D'Antonio and Devin Fehely reports. (3/13/23)
Rates are at their highest level in 15 years as policymakers try to tamp down inflation without torpedoing the economy.
Latest jump is the fourth supersized rate hike this year, as the central bank tries to subdue stubbornly high inflation.
Jill Schlesinger reports on the impacts of the latest interest rate hike by the Fed on consumers (9-22-2022)
Naomi Ruchim reports on effort by Feds to curb inflation by hiking interest rates (9-21-2022)
Borrowing costs rose to their highest level in 14 years, and more interest-rate hikes are likely, Fed signaled.
The Federal Reserve, as expected, announced it is raising interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point to help tamp down inflation. CBS News' Tanya Rivero and Christina Ruffini get analysis of the economic and political impact from Ted Rossman, senior industry analyst at Bankrate.com; CBS News political correspondent Caitlin Huey-Burns; and Michelle Singletary, Washington Post personal finance columnist.
The rise in the federal funds rate, which is what banks charge each other for overnight loans, comes as several significant pieces of economic data are released this week.
CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger talks about impact the Federal Reserve's .75% interest rate hike will have (6-16-2022)
