Tyler Foster
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Three-year Treasury notes sold October 6 at a 4.932 percent yield
Treasury sold $58 billion of three-year notes on Tuesday, October 6, at a high yield of 4.932 percent, the highest of the ten monthly three-year...
Prosecutors charged a Vietnamese national with laundering about $53.3 million in pig-butchering money
Federal prosecutors in Kansas City have charged Trung Nguyen Van, 37, a Vietnamese national, with laundering money from pig-butchering scams. The complaint says his cryptocurrency...
Eleven people were sentenced for grabbing credit union members’ phones to reach their bank accounts
Eleven people have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from four months to three years and six months for a scheme in which fraudsters approached...
A Jamaican sweepstakes caller who targeted at least 115 elderly victims got 36 months
A federal judge in South Carolina sent a Jamaican man to prison for 36 months for phoning elderly Americans with news that they had won...
Nonrevolving consumer credit grew at a 4.1 percent annual rate in August, the Federal Reserve’s October 7 report shows
Nonrevolving consumer debt, the category that holds car and student loans, grew at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.1 percent in August, the Federal...
A five-year new-car loan from a commercial bank averaged 7.54 percent in August and a two-year personal loan 11.90 percent, the Federal Reserve reports
A five-year new-car loan from a commercial bank carried an average rate of 7.54 percent in August, the Federal Reserve reported October 7, up from...
Fed officials said mortgage rates rose more than 10-year Treasury yields and home-purchase borrowing stayed depressed, minutes released October 7 show
Residential mortgage rates rose a bit more than 10-year Treasury yields, and borrowing for home purchases remained depressed, according to minutes of the Federal Reserve’s...
Foreclosure starts ran 29 percent above a year earlier in August, and 89,000 more homes are in active foreclosure than last year, ICE data show
Lenders began foreclosure on far more homes in August than they did a year earlier, even though the pace eased from July. Intercontinental Exchange (ICE),...
Medicaid expansion adults with incomes above the poverty line will owe cost sharing starting October 1, 2028, South Dakota’s Medicaid agency says
South Dakota’s Department of Social Services says Medicaid expansion enrollees with income above 100% of the federal poverty level will have cost shares starting October...
USDA says Trump’s dyed-diesel order should mean about $640 million in combined federal and state savings for farmers and ranchers across 224.6 million harvested acres
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on October 5 that President Donald Trump’s new dyed-diesel order should save farmers and ranchers about $640 million in combined...
Mortgage refinance applications fell 8 percent in a week to their lowest level since 2025, and the MBA says very few homeowners have an incentive to refinance
“Very few homeowners have an incentive to refinance at these rates,” Joel Kan, deputy chief economist at the Mortgage Bankers Association, said in the group’s...
Nine federal employee health plans, including four Health Net of California options, will not be offered in 2027, and enrollees who do not switch go into Compass Rose Standard
Four of the nine federal employee health plan options that will not be offered in 2027 belong to Health Net of California, the Office of...
Veterans with a VA-determined total disability are exempt from Medicaid’s 80-hour monthly work requirement, Pennsylvania’s Medicaid agency says, ahead of the January 1, 2027 start
Pennsylvania’s Medicaid agency lists veterans with a VA-determined total disability among the groups exempt from the state’s new Medicaid work requirement, which starts January 1,...
The average 30-year mortgage rate in the Mortgage Bankers Association survey hit 7.49 percent, its highest in almost three years, as applications fell
The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage reached 7.49 percent in the week ending October 2, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s weekly survey,...
Former WWE shareholders would be paid automatically from a $147.5 million settlement with Vince McMahon and others if a Delaware judge approves it November 30
Former WWE shareholders would receive money automatically, with no claim form, from a $147.5 million cash settlement with Vince McMahon and four other defendants, but...
Social Security recipients paid on the 3rd, including people who claimed before May 1997, get November money on Tuesday, November 3 and December money on Thursday, December 3
Social Security recipients who are paid on the 3rd get their November payment on Tuesday, November 3 and their December payment on Thursday, December 3....