Economy

Rising interest rates are now clearly taking their toll on potential homebuyers. Total mortgage application volume fell 4 percent last week from a week earlier and plunged 16 percent from a year ago, according to […]

A new cold war is brewing between China and the U.S. if both nations don’t take steps toward reconciliation, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson warned in a speech that painted a bleak picture of the […]

Views on overall household finances also split along party lines, with 69 percent saying they had seen no change over the past two years. Just 21 percent of Democrats noted improvement against 77 percent of […]