Inflation has turned from transitory to pernicious, with some economists even raising the specter of a 1970s-style wage-price spiral.
Investors are buying more U.S. farmland in search of a hedge against inflation, as the Russian invasion of Ukraine is driving world food prices to record highs.
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Wall Street is buzzing over the shift in Federal Reserve policy—the era of loose, rock-bottom interest rates is out. In are a series of rate hikes as the central bank tries to put the clamps on spending and cool off inflation.
Rental prices for single-family homes have skyrocketed to record levels across the U.S., increasing to an average of 7.8 percent in 2021. Apartment rents are up too.
30 Year fixed mortgage rates have jumped 160bp this year, reaching the highest since November 2018, with the latest Freddie Mac data showing an acceleration in mortgage rates which jumped a quarter point in just the past week, from 4.42% to 4.67%.
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The Federal Reserve and other central banks took ownership of the bond markets during the pandemic with zero-bound rates. Now they are busy breaking them.
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The deceleration in home prices seen last fall didn’t continue in January as home buyers rushed to lock in deals.
Annual inflation hit a 40-year high last month, at 7.9 percent. And that’s pushing house prices up even higher. NTD spoke with Russell Gray, co-host of “The Real Estate Guys” podcast, to learn more
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Signs of trouble continue to show up in the world’s largest, most liquid government-securities market as government bonds logged their worst week in years and the U.S. central bank’s interest rate hiking cycle gets under way.
US mortgage rates continued their near-vertical ascent, soaring to levels not seen since Jan 2019 at an almost unprecedented speed…
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