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Lowe’s earnings beat as sales jump more than 10% despite sluggish housing market
A Lowe’s store in Concord, California, US, on Monday, Nov. 17, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Lowe’s topped Wall Street’s quarterly revenue and earnings expectations on Wednesday, as the retailer’s quarterly sales grew more than 10% year over year. The home improvement company said it expects total sales for the full […]
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Watch these chart formations for clues into what’s next for market volatility
Seems like the stock market is not the only thing experiencing a volatility storm lately. Last week my friends, family and I were in Park City, Utah, and a massive 2-foot snow storm hit that made for some amazing glade skiing. Sure enough on the way back home, a massive nor’easter hit that closed many […]
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Fed’s Goolsbee calls for a hold on cuts as current rate of inflation is ‘not good enough’
Austan Goolsbee, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, speaks during the National Association of Business Economics (NABE) economic policy conference in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. Graeme Sloane | Bloomberg | Getty Images Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee said Tuesday that interest rate cuts aren’t […]
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Home Depot beats Wall Street’s expectations, even as sales decline
Home Depot on Tuesday posted a roughly 4% quarterly sales decline, as a sluggish real estate market and selective spending by homeowners continued to weigh on home improvement demand. The company also stuck by the current fiscal year forecast that it shared in December at an investor day. It said it expects full-year total sales […]
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Democrats counter Trump’s proposal to limit institutional housing investors
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts and ranking member of Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, speaks during a roundtable on housing affordability in Washington, Jan. 7, 2026. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images Both congressional Democrats and President Donald Trump both want to limit how many homes major corporations can own, […]
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Mortgage rates just dropped below 6%, matching lowest level since 2022
A stock market sell-off had investors rushing to the relative safety of the bond market Monday morning, causing yields to drop and mortgage rates to follow. The average rate on the popular 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 5.99% on Monday, according to Mortgage News Daily, matching its lowest levels since 2022. Last year at this […]
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