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Interest rates
Tapering our own economic expectations
Oct 30, 2013
The Federal Reserve reaffirmed, to no one's surprise, that its stimulus will continue.
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Student loan interest rate capped at 8.25%
Jul 26, 2013
The compromise approved by the Senate puts a ceiling on the interest rates for undergraduate student loans.
Rising interest rates impacts banks
Jul 12, 2013
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.
Which would you rather have: More jobs or lower interest rates?
Jul 8, 2013
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.
Why rising interest rates make the bond market crazy
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Adriene Hill
Jul 2, 2013
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.
Who's afraid of 5 percent mortgage rates?
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Gigi Douban
Jun 28, 2013
Do fast-rising interest rates threaten the growing recovery in housing? Experts say prices are still low enough to attract buyers.
Why does it cost the poor so much to borrow?
Jun 27, 2013
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.
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Top central banker calls investors 'feral hogs'
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Juli Niemann
Jun 25, 2013
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?
Student loan interest D-Day: What's it mean?
Jun 25, 2013
Interest rates are supposed to go up July 1. How big is the hike and what does it really mean numbers-wise?
Wall Street's gut punch comes from the East
Jun 24, 2013
Will China’s efforts to curtail lending become a problem for the U.S. economy?