These are today's mortgage and refinance rates. Mortgage rates are back down today after spiking in response to hotter-than-expected inflation data.

Markets opened lower this morning, reacting to what is viewed as a “hot” inflation report. Click here to read more about the ...

Gold is historically the best inflation hedge, currently in a bull market with strong potential returns, making it a top ...

We are still feeling the effects of yesterday’s CPI. It’s not so much the BLS reading of headline and core CPI higher, but rather the Cleveland Fed’s median up 3.9% annualized (from 3.59%) and core up ...

An issue that previously "crushed the Joe Biden presidency" now threatens his successor, Donald Trump, a CNN poll analyst ...

While inflation has cooled since 2022, the CPI rose 2.9% from Dec. 2023 to Dec. 2024. Not all prices rise at the same rate – some sectors of the economy are seeing minimal inflation or even ...

Going without insurance hurt all low-income Americans. But studies suggest the drop in Black Americans’ coverage under Trump’s plan outpaced that of white Americans. The rate of uninsured Black ...

The discrepancy is because the cost of rent and medical expenses are not used to calculate the consumer price index, from ...

The nonpartisan advocacy group The Senior Citizens League predicts the 2026 COLA will be 2.1%, based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ CPI-W, the index used to calculate the annual increase ...

Tens of millions of Americans rely on Social Security benefits for a substantial portion of their retirement income. Not only ...

Millions of older Americans collect a monthly Social Security benefit. And without that income, many would be unable to cover ...