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Treasury Yields Rise to Highest in 2 Years—Investors Rethinking Upcoming Fed Interest Rate Hike

MarketWatch reported on January 18 that the bond market selloff, based on trades since January 1, is the worst start to a year in three or four decades, raising expectations for a sooner than anticipated...

Single-Family Home Builders Losing Confidence in the Future as Materials Costs Soar

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) released their monthly index on January 18 showing the first decline of confidence among single-family home builders in four months, with future sales expectations for the next 6...

Improving Economy Supports Mortgage Loan Performance

CoreLogic’s monthly Loan Performance Report, released January 11, shows that October’s mortgage delinquency rate, which has been steadily declining, has returned to pre-pandemic levels at 3.8% overall delinquency compared to 3.7% in October 2019. The...

Fed Report Shows Consumers Continued to Use Their Credit Cards in November

The January 7 release of the Fed’s Consumer Credit Report (G.19) indicates a brisk uptick in consumer credit with an 11% overall increase in outstanding debt, outpacing September and October increases of 7.2% and 4.4%...

Hospitality and Healthcare Workers are Leaving Jobs in Record Numbers

The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary (JOLTS) report, released January 4, tallied 6.3 million total separations in November, matching the record set in September. The hospitality industry saw over a...