Mortgage applications increased 0.6% last week, driven by a 6% rise in purchase applications despite higher interest rates. The refinance index fell 3%, reflecting the impact of rising rates on ...

OpenAI’s relentless push for growth took another turn on Thursday when the company said it had bought Software Applications Incorporated. The company is perhaps best known for making Workflows. Apple ...

For the first time in four years, the federal government plans to begin processing first-time applications for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The program gives deportation protection ...

What a difference a week makes for mortgage application demand. As we noted last week, mortgage rates were already trending lower than those captured in the weekly survey numbers from MBA and Freddie ...

Lower mortgage rates prompted mortgage applications to increase 9.2% from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA)’s weekly mortgage applications survey for the ...

Students continue to pursue postsecondary education—particularly Latino and Black students—and a growing share of those applicants are choosing to submit SAT and ACT scores even when institutions are ...

Terry Lane is a writer for Investopedia with 25 years of experience in journalism and communications. He covers personal finance, Congress, government regulations, and economics. David Paul ...

Purchase and refinance apps both climb, with purchase demand now 20% higher than a year ago, MBA reports Mortgage applications bounced back last week, heading up after weeks of declines and hitting ...

Mortgage application volume saw a modest increase last week, buoyed by a notable rise in home purchase activity, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) latest Weekly Mortgage ...

EXCLUSIVE: The FBI received a record number of new agent applications in Director Kash Patel’s first full month leading the bureau, with the flood of law enforcement job-seekers nearly doubling the ...