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Mortgage rates surge over 7% as tariffs hit bond market

The average rate on the popular 30-year fixed mortgage surged 13 basis points Friday to 7.1%, according to Mortgage News Daily. That’s the highest rate since mid-February. Mortgage rates have been on a roller coaster ride all week, as bond yields spiked higher mid-week when President Donald Trump’s new tariffs on dozens of countries went […]

GM cutting jobs, idling Canadian electric van plant

Brightdrop EV600 van Source: Brightdrop DETROIT — General Motors is cutting production of its all-electric BrightDrop delivery vans at a plant in Canada and will idle the facility through much of 2025, the company confirmed Friday. The CAMI assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, will be reduced from two shifts to one — eliminating 500 jobs […]

Frontier Airlines cuts flights after travel demand fell in March

Frontier Airlines Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Frontier Airlines joined Delta Air Lines in pulling its full-year outlook and cutting flights due to a drop in demand and an “uncertain environment.” The budget airline also lowered its first-quarter outlook. Frontier said its revenue growth likely rose 5% in the first quarter, with capacity up […]

Jamie Dimon expects S&P 500 earnings estimates to fall amid uncertainty

JPMorgan Chase CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon gestures as he speaks during the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee oversight hearing on Wall Street firms, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Friday that he expects estimates for corporate earnings to fall amid the […]

Trump pivot on tariffs shows Wall Street still has a seat at his table

Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, testifies during the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing titled Annual Oversight of Wall Street Firms, in the Hart Building on Dec. 6, 2023. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images With each passing day since President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff announcement last week, a […]

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