The Latest Breaking News from Interest Rates

Rising home mortgage interest rates, a lack of seller inventory and still high home prices have thrown the residential real estate industry and investment strategies into a tailspin.

Property prices are plunging fast as rising interest rates push down property prices, leaving the market mired in uncertainty.

The European Central Bank is expected to set aside recession worries and deliver another jumbo interest rate hike this week to cool inflation, as Russia's war on Ukraine sends energy prices soaring. Inflation in the 19-nation eurozone climbed to an all-time high of nearly 10 percent in September, five times…

It’s one of the many effects of the rise in interest rates in the United States: The Japanese yen has fallen to a 32-year low versus the dollar. The government in Tokyo will not allow its 10-year yield to rise above 0.25% — it’s a government finance policy mandate —…

Why REITs Are Being Sold And Avoided Interest rates, interest rate hikes and expectations about further interest rate hikes are creating problems for real estate investment trusts. 

Liz Truss’s successor might not emerge for another week – but Gus O’Donnell warns that is too late

Ben Broadbent says increase already priced into markets would deliver ‘pretty material’ hit to economy

When Covid sent the UK economy into lockdown in 2020, the government jumped in to help the property market by cutting a tax on purchases. The temporary measure triggered a kind of mania among buyers, who responded by bidding up average prices by £31,000 ($35,000) — more than double the…

In a time of “difficult choices, economic pain and higher interest rates,” the American workforce is exploring new alternatives in order to get by.

Turkey’s central bank has slashed interest rates for the third month in a row, making its biggest drop this year despite sky-high inflation that is squeezing people’s finances

Retail sales volumes have fallen by more than expected as households cut back spending in the face of rising borrowing and energy costs.