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The 30-year mortgage rate is averaging 6.84%, Freddie Mac said in its latest weekly survey on Thursday.

During recent conversations with MarketWatch, several institutional investors expressed trepidation about buying more Treasury notes and bonds for their portfolios.

Spousal-benefit rules are complicated, especially if there’s a big age difference.

The Google parent’s stock is heading for its worst day in 10 months. But one analyst thinks a forced Chrome sale seems unlikely.

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is a longtime Democrat who served as an advisor to Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, but he remains cautiously optimistic that President-elect Donald Trump, and his advisor Elon Musk, could make some positive contributions to the U.S. economy.

Nvidia’s stock is largely holding its own despite a lack of oomph in the guidance. That reflects how well investors understand the company’s narrative and cadence.

Most retail investors are feeling pretty good about their investments right now, and according to a recent survey, they expect the good times to continue.

 The leading indicators of the U.S. economy fell for the eighth month in a row in October, but there’s still no sign the current four-year-old expansion is in trouble.

Existing-home sales rose to a rate of 3.96 million in October, the National Association of Realtors said.

The star of numerous TV series and movies tells MarketWatch, “I’m kind of a miser. I don’t have like an exotic car collection … I’m just waiting for the bottom to drop out.”

Beyond says it can’t move ahead with its planned $40 million investment.

As inflation slowed sharply last summer, the Federal Reserve sketched out a plan to slash high U.S. interest rates in anticipation of its pending victory over runaway prices. Now that plan is risk.