The average 30-year fixed mortgage hit its lowest rate since...
The average 30-year fixed mortgage hit its lowest rate since October 2024 this week. The decrease wasn’t much—6.58%, down from 6.63% last week—but it represented a reprieve amid persistently high mortgage rates. The drop was related to bond yields creeping lower, which were in turn influenced by weak hiring data in the July jobs report. This might be more blip than trend for now, though. Mortgage Bankers Association Chief Economist Michael Fratantoni told the Wall Street Journal, “What I’ve told our members is to just sort of expect there are going to be these moments of opportunity. But don’t expect they’re going to last long.” For most of the year, mortgage rates have sat just below 7%, which has meant listings staying up longer and fewer qualified purchasers being interested.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced plans to build 3,000 homes in the E1 area of the West Bank in order to “bury” the viability of a Palestinian state, a move that most of the international community considers illegal.
Berkshire Hathaway bought over 5 million shares in UnitedHealth last quarter, a stake worth about $1.6 billion.
Air Canada and the union representing 10,500 flight attendants are at loggerheads over compensation, and both announced that service disruptions at the airline would begin tomorrow.
Apple is reinstating blood oxygen monitoring to newer Apple Watches following an import ban by the International Trade Commission.
Airbnb said it would let users reserve certain properties in the US without paying up front, a feature it’s calling “Reserve Now, Pay Later.”
PPI reflects sharpest rise in three years for U.S. wholesale prices
The cost of wholesale goods and services — where rising...
The cost of wholesale goods and services — where rising inflation tends to show up first — posted the most significant increase in three years in July, possibly heralding a sizable acceleration in price hikes tied to U.S. tariffs.
The producer price index jumped 0.9% last month after no change in June, the government said Thursday.
Some, but not all, of the increase occurred in goods directly affected by tariffs. Food was the biggest contributor to higher wholesale prices
The yearly rate of wholesale inflation climbed to 3.3% from 2.3%, a five-month high.
Another gauge, known as the core rate, which is seen as a more stable measure of wholesale inflation, rose 0.6% in July.
The 12-month increase in the core rate moved up to 2.8% from 2.5%.
The wholesale report doesn’t capture the cost of imports as well as the consumer price index, but the CPI also showed a sharper increase in July.
Epsilon Energy Buys Jack Vaughn's Peak E&P in Powder River
Public E&P Epsilon Energy is acquiring Peak Exploration and Production and its affiliates in the...
Public E&P Epsilon Energy is acquiring Peak Exploration and Production and its affiliates in the Powder River Basin.
Peak E&P LLC and Peak BLM Lease LLC, collectively known as Peak, are majority-owned by Yorktown Energy Partners' funds.
Epsilon will issue 6 million common shares and assume around $49 million of debt to acquire Peak’s Powder River Basin assets. Based on Epsilon’s 10-day volume-weighted average share price of $6.21 per share, the deal’s value is approximately $86.26 million.
The acquired Peak assets include 40,500 net acres in the core of the Powder River Basin. Second-quarter 2025 production averaged 2,200 boe/d (56% oil, 44% gas).
