Government Shutdown: Will Mortgage Rates Fall or Rise?
A government shutdown could push mortgage rates lower or higher, and the missing economic data makes forecasting even harder. Here is what actually drives the swings and what buyers should…
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Mortgage Rates Near 5% With This Loan Option
15 year mortgage rates are running about a point below 30 year loans, opening a path to mid 5% pricing. Here is who can actually afford the higher payment.
Mortgage APR Explained: The Hidden Truth Behind the Number
APR looks like a simple number, but a low one can hide upfront points and fees that only pay off if you keep the loan for decades. Here's how to…
Conventional Mortgage vs FHA Loan: Which Home Loan Is Right for You
Conventional mortgages skip the government guarantee but demand stronger credit. Here's how conforming limits, PMI, points and 2023's fee changes actually shape what borrowers pay.
Ginnie Mae Explains How It Links Housing to Capital Markets
Ginnie Mae is a federal government corporation that guarantees timely payment of principal and interest on mortgage backed securities issued by approved lenders, backing pools of FHA, VA, USDA and…
SpaceX Secures $25 Billion in First Investment Grade Bond Sale
Virgin Galactic shares fell 8.83% to $2.72 on June 21, 2026, leaving the stock close to its 52-week low of $2.27. With a negative P/E and no profitable business unit,…
Grocery Store Stocks Q4 Albertsons (ACI)
Albertsons posted Q4 fiscal 2025 revenue of $19.12 billion but delivered the weakest growth among grocery peers. With ACI trading near its 52-week low and yielding nearly 5%, here is…
AI Selloff Batters Wall Street and South Korea
QQQ dropped to 706.61 USD on June 21, about 5.6% below its 52-week high, as AI-related selling hit Nvidia and Oracle hard. With an RSI of 46.52 and a neutral…
Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan Dies at 100
Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman who steered the US economy through Black Monday, the dot com crash, the LTCM bailout, and the prelude to 2008, died Monday at 100.…
Agility Robotics Eyes $2.5B SPAC Public Listing
Agility Robotics is going public via a SPAC merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI at a $2.5 billion valuation. Here is what investors need to know about Digit v5, the…
Meta (META) Arena App Tanks DraftKings Robinhood Shares
Meta is building a standalone prediction markets app called Arena under direct orders from Mark Zuckerberg. With Meta stock near a 52-week low and DraftKings already feeling the pressure, here…
OpenAI Custom AI Chip Arrives
OpenAI has unveiled Jalapeño, its first custom AI chip built with Broadcom. The company claims it beats current state-of-the-art silicon in early testing, a direct shot at Nvidia. Here is…
Cerebras (CSAI) Shares Sink as Margins Trail AI Chip Rivals
Cerebras Systems dropped nearly 18% after its debut earnings report revealed full-year gross margin guidance well below Nvidia and AMD peers. Here is what the numbers actually say about the…
Wendy's (WEN) Short Interest and Days to Cover Ahead of June 2026
Wendy's stock surged more than 30% on June 21, 2026, as new executive appointments from Potbelly and a retail-driven short squeeze campaign combined to produce the chain's biggest single-session gain…
Qualcomm Buys Modular for 3.9 Billion
Qualcomm is spending $3.92 billion in stock to acquire Modular, an AI software startup whose hardware-agnostic platform could help the chipmaker challenge Nvidia's stranglehold on data center AI development tooling.
Postal Service Asks Congress for a Financial Rescue
Postmaster General David Steiner told a Senate committee this week that USPS is borrowing from employee retirement funds to stay solvent, with deferred obligations of nearly $31 billion and a…
Cerebras Systems (CBRS) Beats Earnings but Stock Falls
Cerebras Systems beat Q1 revenue estimates in its debut earnings report, but shares plunged more than 17 percent after the AI chip company guided for sharply lower gross margins in…
Salesforce (CRM) Stock Rises Despite Market Slump
Salesforce rose 2.3% on a weak tech day after an analyst reaffirmed a $315 target tied to its $3.6 billion Fin acquisition. With shares near a 52-week low and a…
UPS (UPS) Invests $50M in GLP-1 Cold Storage
UPS is spending $48 million on 27 temperature-controlled facilities to chase the booming biologics market. With the stock at $105.83 and a 6.2% yield, we weigh whether the healthcare pivot…