Mortgage rates rose this week, pushing the benchmark 30-year home loan to the 3% mark for the first time since mid-April. Signs continued of the economy’s recovery from the pandemic recession, and a burst of inflation rattled stock markets.

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U.S. stocks surged Wednesday, recovering all their losses from a Christmas Eve plunge and placing the market on track for its best day in nine months. Gains in technology companies, retailers, health care and internet stocks drove the broad rally, ...

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On Monday, stocks slid an additional 2 to 3 percent after another Trump tweet-attack on the Fed and an effort by his Treasury secretary to calm investors' fears that only seemed to make matters worse.

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The bull market in U.S. stocks is about to become the longest in history. If stocks don’t drop significantly by the close of trading Wednesday, the bull market that began in March 2009 will have lasted nine years, five months ...

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Maryland money managers preached patience after a tumultuous week reintroduced volatility to the stock market, triggering headlines and frequent push alerts from news services. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 dipped into a correction this week, but the underlying ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as anxious investors send stock prices plunging, many Americans are sounding a rather different note: They’re staying calm and carrying on. Some wonder if they may have to work a few extra years to recoup some ...

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As the U.S. stock market plummeted on Monday with memories of the 2008 financial crisis still fresh, developers generally shrugged off worries the volatile market could signal a coming economic slump that could hinder building. Developers with projects in the ...

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All streaks eventually come to an end. For the first time since 2009 when the U.S. economy was emerging from the Great Recession, companies may be about to report that their quarterly earnings fell. Plunging oil prices have pummeled profits ...

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Warren Buffett's failure to beat the stock market in four of the past five years has raised the issue of whether Berkshire Hathaway's 83-year-old CEO has lost his touch.

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A hot market for initial public offerings may soon face a cooler reception from investors.

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