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Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate on 30-year, fixed-rate home loans rose to 4.05 percent from 4.02 percent last week. The benchmark rate stood at 3.57 percent a year ago and averaged 3.65 percent in 2016, the lowest level in records dating to 1971.
The Congressional Leadership Fund, a super pac tied to House Speaker Paul Ryan, tops spending in special elections and tests get-out-the-vote strategy for the 2018 midterm elections. Outside money floods House special elections in Georgia and Montana The Congressional Leadership Fund, a super pac tied to House Speaker Paul Ryan, tops spending in special elections and tests get-out-the-vote strategy for the 2018 midterm elections.
The D-11 meet was held in Chappell and the Morrill girls and the Crawford boys earn... -- The host of the next World Cup will be decided sooner than expected.FIFA approved a plan to fast-track the bidding process that determines which country w... -- Sen. Mike Lee raised eyebrows in Washington, D.C., Thursday for his suggestion that former Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland could lead the FBI, a pitch th... -- Wednesday's episode of Empire, "Absent Child," begins with a meeting between the Lyon and Dubois families.
General Hospital actor and Trump fan Antonio Sabato Jr to run for Congress after claims Hollywood blacklisted him for publicly supporting the president Antonio Sabato, Jr, 45, will run for US Congress in California in the 2018 election according to documents filed with the Federal Election Commission on Monday He will seek to oust Democrat Julia Brownley from California's 26th congressional district, who has held the seat since the 2012 election Sabato was inspired to run by his experience at the Republican National Convention in July, after which he said he was blacklisted in Hollywood Actor Antonio Sabato Jr has decided to run for Congress after claiming he was blacklisted by Hollywood producers for his public support of President Donald Trump.
The CEO of Wells Fargo was seated on stage in Los Angeles Monday, alongside four other top executives from different industries. They were gathered to talk about "creating meaningful lives for the 21st century workforce," the kind of lofty topic you'd expect at the annual Milken Institute Global Conference.
Greece and its international creditors have struck a deal that would allow the country to receive bailout funds in exchange for more cuts to government pensions and higher taxes. Under the terms of the agreement, Greece will, among other things, cut pensions in 2019 and reduce the amount at which taxes must be paid in 2020 in order to save 2 percent of gross domestic product.
Luke Hickmore, senior investment manager at Aberdeen Asset Management, discusses the ECB's inflation challenge and the EU's Brexit Unity. He speaks on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Europe."
UBS Group AG fees from wealth management helped drive an 80 percent rise in first-quarter profit, with clients also adding billions of francs in new money. Net income rose to 1.27 billion Swiss francs from 707 million a year earlier, the Zurich-based lender said in a statement on Friday.
U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey will relocate his Northeast Pennsylvania office to Wilkes-Barre's Stegmaier Building on May 5, according to a news release. The new office will replace his current Northeast office on Spruce Street in Scranton.
One of the many irritating things about the dominant United States corporate media is the way it repeatedly discovers anew things that are not remotely novel. Take its recent discovery that Donald Trump isn't really the swamp-draining populist working class champion he pretended to be on the campaign trail.
In this Jan. 20, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump waves as he walks with first lady Melania Trump during the inauguration parade on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington. Trump raised $107 million for his inaugural festivities.
To simply label the Trump administration as a herd of hypocrites undersells a tremendous capacity to lie without shame. Throughout the campaign, Donald Trump and his surrogates freely leveled a variety of accusations at Hillary Clinton and her team, but often the three fingers pointing back at themselves told the real story.
In a White House marked by infighting, top economic aide Gary Cohn, a Democrat and former Goldman Sachs banker, is muscling aside some of President Donald Trump's hard-right advisers to push more moderate, business-friendly economic policies. Cohn, 56, did not work on Republican Trump's campaign and only got to know him after the November election, but he has emerged as one of the administration's most powerful players in an ascent that rankles conservatives.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee concluded its annual conference late last month, triggering the usual debate in various alternative media outlets. Why does so much U.S. taxpayer money go to a small and not particularly useful client state that has a vibrant European-level economy and is already a regional military colossus? Those who support the cash flow argue that Israel is threatened, most notably by Iran; they claim the assistance, which has been largely but not completely used to buy American-made weapons, is required to maintain a qualitative edge over the country's potential enemies.
When Sharon Gross received a recall notice alerting her that the air-bag inflator in her 2012 Toyota Corolla was defective and needed to be replaced, she was more than willing to get it fixed. “I've been stressing since I got the notice in early March,” the 70-year-old Riverside resident said.
All signs suggest we're now in the "President Trump has full confidence in Michael Flynn" phase of Steve Bannon's tenure in the Trump White House. I don't know whether this is some moron genius dialectic on Bannon's part or just Karma.
The acquisition of financial giant MoneyGram by a company with close ties to the Beijing government might be scuppered by rising fears that Chinese spies would exploit the data of American troops and their families to track military movements and identify targets to turn. The bidding war for Dallas-based MoneyGram pits China's Zhejiang Ant Small and Micro Financial Services - called "Ant" - against Euronet Worldwide, a Kansas firm that's American-owned.
NEW YORK -- The trial between bankrupt brokerage MF Global, run by former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, and its former accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers, ended abruptly Thursday, with both parties saying they have reached a settlement.