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Debt settlement may reduce what borrowers repay, yet fees, damaged credit, lawsuits and taxes can erase the apparent savings.
High mortgage rates are freezing transactions, but tight supply and resilient borrowers are limiting the odds of a nationwide collapse.
PenFed, Better and Navy Federal led a weekly rate survey as borrowers gained modest relief from elevated mortgage costs.
The Federal Reserve’s two-day meeting begins Tuesday, with its rate decision and Jerome Powell’s press conference scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.
Markets now see a September increase as likely, while the Fed’s own projections point to a higher policy rate by year-end.
Higher policy rates would lift some savings yields while making variable-rate debt and new borrowing more expensive.
Savers faced a trade-off: lock in yields above 5% now or preserve flexibility in case rates stayed higher for longer.
The Federal Open Market Committee has five meetings left in 2026, including three with updated economic projections.
A hotter-than-forecast August CPI and PPI reading pushed Treasury yields to multi-decade highs, dragging bitcoin to a two-week low ahead of next week's Fed meeting.
A hotter-than-expected April CPI report, driven by surging gas and beef prices, is pushing savers back toward TIPS, I bonds, gold and hard assets.
With April inflation at 3.8% and I bonds now paying a 4.26% composite rate, savers are weighing the fine print against savings accounts and CDs.
A guide to the calendar-year credits worth using before December 31, and why anniversary-based perks like Venture X's travel credit work on a different clock.
As carriers lean harder on loyalty revenue, the 2026 crop of airline credit cards is being judged less on flashy bonuses and more on how much a free checked bag or lounge pass is really worth.
FDIC insurance protects deposits up to $250,000, yet fees, rate cuts and inflation can still quietly erode what savers actually keep.
Starbucks is spending roughly $1 billion on cozier North American cafes, betting the upgrade pays off before investors lose patience on margins.
With 30-year rates back near 6.6% after last fall's spike above 8%, credit scores, rate shopping and discount points now separate the best mortgage deals from the rest.
Oracle's executive chairman canceled a 50-million-share trading plan just a day after disclosing it, as the stock sits down 22% for the year.
A federal appeals court found sports-outcome contracts on prediction platforms are gambling, not swaps, lifting the legacy sportsbooks that lost ground to Kalshi.
With bond yields at a one-year high and stocks near records, Ray Dalio and Bloomberg's wealth managers offer competing playbooks for a $10,000 allocation.
With futures markets pricing an 87% chance the Fed raises rates Wednesday, Bitcoin has slipped from its early-September peak as attention shifts to Treasury's bond-market moves.
Overdraft, ATM, and monthly maintenance charges still cost Americans billions each year, but most carry simple, well-documented workarounds.
Drone strikes forced Riyadh to close its East-West pipeline, the kingdom's main workaround for the blocked Strait of Hormuz, pushing Brent crude to multi-month highs.
Jim Cramer's lightning-round endorsement of Akamai spotlights a bet that cybersecurity and Nvidia-linked cloud contracts can outrun its fading content-delivery roots.
Government and defense customers drove Planet Labs' revenue growth past 50% last year, and early fiscal 2027 results suggest the pivot toward sovereign satellite contracts is only gathering speed.