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Will mortgage rates drop significantly in the coming months, with the Fed potentially cutting rates in the near future? Four economists weigh in.

Extreme weather poses risks to retirement — as much as healthcare costs and debt

Yields on U.S. government debt continued to sink on Thursday in a sign of the bond market’s growing nervousness about the overall strength of the economy ahead of Friday’s nonfarm payrolls report for July.

C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc.’s new operating model is off to a good start, say analysts, after the shipping logistics provider’s better-than-expected second-quarter profit.

The U.S. jobs market isn’t creating any many new jobs as it was a year ago. The economy has slowed because of high interest rates and that’s reduced the demand for labor.

Hertz’s stock fell Thursday, after the rental car company reported another wider-than-expected loss, but said it expects the rapid depreciation of its vehicles to slow as it pushes to complete its “fleet refresh.”

The governor of the Bank of England was asked about a move in the U.K. currency market ahead of the rate decision.

The more the U.S. spends on construction, the higher the level of economic activity.

While Meta is a strong play on consumer AI, other large technology companies are better positioned in generative AI so far.

A key barometer of U.S. factories fell in July for the fourth month in a row and hit an eight-month low, a sign that an ongoing slump in the industrial side of the economy has deepened.

Car-loan interest rates should begin easing off their two-decade highs once the Federal Reserve starts decreasing its benchmark rate, auto-industry experts say. The bad news is that vehicle prices remain steep.

The number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits last week jumped to a nearly one-year high of 249,000, but the part of the increase was tied to annual auto-plant shutdowns and the details of the report were less alarming.