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The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages increased to 6.45% from 6.37%. Applications for a mortgage to buy a home were just 5% higher than the same week one year ago.

"I'm pleased to report that in the first quarter, National MI again delivered standout operating performance, continued growth in our insured portfolio and strong financial results." (Executive ...

Visa is expanding its stablecoin settlement pilot to nine blockchains, adding Base, Polygon, Canton Network, Arc and Tempo to existing support for Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche and Stellar. The program, ...

The average rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances decreased to 6.35% from 6.42% Last year at this time, the 30-year fixed was 55 basis points higher. Applications for a ...

Optimal Blue data shows purchase activity carrying the market while refinance volume turns more selective Mortgage lock activity increased in March as purchase demand strengthened despite a rising ...

Mortgage rates have risen almost half a percentage point since Iran war start Increase in home borrowing costs hurts housing affordability for new buyers Oil down, Treasury yields up as Trump says he ...

Sinking freight rates are making a dent in the top and bottom lines of another ocean carrier. Hapag-Lloyd says its revenues declined 7.4 percent to $5 billion in the fourth quarter, weighing heavily ...

The outcome of Super Bowl LX appears to have been favorable to online sportsbook operators. The relatively low-scoring game and lack of high-volume parlays and prop bets hitting both worked in favor ...

Abstract: Oil-gas–water three-phase slug flow characterization and flow rate metering is an important issue highly related to the production safety and efficiency in petroleum industries. In this ...

In Part 1 of our series, we examined the common use of the relative viscosity curve to identify a single, specific plastic flow rate to apply during the injection phase of a molding process. While ...