In America’s red-hot housing market, where high prices and high interest rates have weighed on prospective buyers, home builders have had to get creative to sell their assets. Home Buying Perks Mortgage rates have been elevated in recent years in response to the Federal Reserve’s high-interest rate policy to fight inflation. The high costs have…Read more
Early Birds, Worms or Warnings? This week’s column is going to cover two topics that are completely unrelated, except for the fact that both have made headlines this week and are worth watching for investors. We couldn’t choose a favorite so we’re doing both. First up: bank earnings. Third quarter earnings season kicked off with…Read more
Still Spending Americans continue to spend their hard-earned dollars – irrespective of high prices all around them. And that’s good news for the U.S. economy. U.S. retail sales increased by 0.4% in September, according to the Census Bureau. This may sound like a tiny change, but in the world of retail sales data, it was…Read more
