Mortgage refinance demand plunges 19% after interest rates shoot higher
[ad_1] In an aerial view, two-story single family homes line the streets on Jan. 14, 2026 in Thousand Oaks, California. Kevin Carter | Getty Images Mortgage rates last week jumped to the highest level since the end of last year, causing a crash in the growing refinance demand the market had been seeing at the […]
Fed’s Goolsbee calls for a hold on cuts as current rate of inflation is ‘not good enough’
[ad_1] Austan Goolsbee, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, speaks to the Economic Club of New York in New York City, U.S., April 10, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee said Tuesday that interest rate cuts aren’t appropriate until there’s more evidence that inflation is on […]
How the AI debt binge shattered hyperscalers’ ‘unspoken contract’ with investors
[ad_1] Hyperscalers are significantly ramping up their AI capex spending — and increasingly using credit markets to fund it. But investors say this shift is challenging mega-cap tech giants’ so-called ‘fortress balance sheet’ status, and rips up what they call the “unspoken contract” that kept speculative AI spending largely separate from debt markets. After Amazon, […]