Mortgage rates are up slightly, with long-term notes lifting off a two-year low from last week. Freddie Mac’s latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, released Thursday, showed that the average rate on the benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage inched up to 6.12% from last week’s reading of 6.08%. The average rate on a…

A federal judge on Wednesday set back Republican efforts to thwart President Biden’s student loan bailout, allowing the government to proceed with his debt cancellation plan weeks before the November election.  U.S. District Judge Randal Hall of Augusta removed Georgia from a lawsuit brought by seven Republican-led states against the…

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. EVgo — Shares soared 55% after the electric vehicle charger company received a $1.05 billion conditional loan from the Department of Energy. JPMorgan also upgraded EVgo to overweight . Analyst Bill Peterson pointed to EVgo’s utilization rate compared to peers as…

September’s jobs picture is expected to look a lot like August’s — a gradual slowdown in hiring, a modest increase in wages and a labor market that is looking a lot like many policymakers had hoped it would.Nonfarm payrolls are projected to show growth of 150,000, from 142,000 the month…

A week ago, few outside the labor movement or shipping industry knew Harold Daggett, the tough-talking, colorful head of the union now on strike at ports along the East and Gulf Coasts. That’s certainly no longer the case. Daggett is the president of the International Longshoremen’s Association, which has nearly…

Bitcoin’s bull market cycle is accelerating, CoinMarketCap says. It’s running 100 days ahead of its typical four-year cycle. This raises the possibility of a “super cycle” fueled by institutional adoption, ETFs, and changing market dynamics. Read the full article here

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Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Hedge funds myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Top Wall Street block trader Andrew Liebeskind has left hedge fund LMR Partners after less than a year and is joining rival ExodusPoint Capital Management, according to people with knowledge of the…

Former House GOP conference chair Liz Cheney and former Trump White House aides Alyssa Farah Griffin, Cassidy Hutchinson and Sarah Matthews will make the case against the reelection of former President Donald Trump in a fireside chat in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, next week, CNN has exclusively learned. The event will…

The self-employed have the potential to earn more, and build wealth faster than a traditional employee, if their business allows. If not managed correctly, though, a solo owner can also find themselves well behind retirement unless they take proper steps to save. This reality was highlighted again with new research…