Sept 17 (Reuters) - The interest rate on the most popular U.S. home loan dropped last week to its lowest in a year, sending homeowners racing to lock in cheaper borrowing costs as slowing jobs growth and expectations for a Federal Reserve interest-rate cut drive down yields on benchmark Treasuries. The Mortgage Bankers Association on Wednesday said the contract rate...

01:46 PM EDT, 09/17/2025 (MT Newswires) -- US benchmark equity indexes were mixed intraday ahead of the Federal Reserve's latest monetary policy decision. The Nasdaq Composite was down 0.6% at 22,191.2 after midday Wednesday, while the S&P 500 fell 0.2% to 6,592.4. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.5% to 45,978.1. Among sectors, technology saw the biggest drop, while consumer...

(Reuters) -The interest rate on the most popular U.S. home loan dropped last week to its lowest in a year, sending homeowners racing to lock in cheaper borrowing costs as slowing jobs growth and expectations for a Federal Reserve interest-rate cut drive down yields on benchmark Treasuries. The Mortgage Bankers Association on Wednesday said the contract rate on a 30-year,...

06:45 AM EDT, 09/17/2025 (MT Newswires) -- The most-talked-about stocks in the Reddit subforum Wallstreetbets were mixed hours before Wednesday's opening bell. Opendoor Technologies ( OPEN ) was 0.5% higher premarket, swinging from a 6.1% fall at Tuesday's close. Alphabet (GOOG) was up 0.4% pre-bell, following a 0.1% decline in the previous session. Oracle (ORCL) advanced by 0.3% in pre-bell...