Lending money for 30 years at a fixed interest rate isn't attractive to banks. So how did 30-year fixed-rate mortgages come to be the standard?

The compromise approved by the Senate puts a ceiling on the interest rates for undergraduate student loans.

As Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase kick off bank earnings season, it's a chance to see the effect rising interest rates are having on our nation's banks.

The yield on the 10-year Treasury note — the benchmark for U.S. interest rates — was up this morning following Friday's somewhat positive jobs report.

You hear it again and again as if it's a natural law: "bond prices decline inversely as interest rates rise." Here's why they do.

Do fast-rising interest rates threaten the growing recovery in housing? Experts say prices are still low enough to attract buyers.

Interest rates banks pay the Fed, and middle- and upper-income consumers pay the banks, are incredibly low. But that's not trickling down to borrowers at the bottom.

A Federal Reserve banker in Texas has warned the so-called 'feral hogs' of the financial markets to stop overreacting to the Federal Reserve's plans to wind down quantitative easing. What does it all mean?

Interest rates are supposed to go up July 1. How big is the hike and what does it really mean numbers-wise?