Fewer Americans now have agreements with their mortgage servicers to skip their monthly payments. Getty Images / iStockphoto Fewer than 4 million homeowners in the US skip their mortgage payments, according to new estimates by the Mortgage Bankers Association released Monday. The business group reported that only 7.8% of mortgage …
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It is an open secret that commercial real estate owners withdraw cash from buildings. When they do, unlike homeowners, criticism is often mild. After all, hotels, shopping malls, office towers, and other commercial buildings are run as businesses, where the primary goal is to make a profit. “The real estate …
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Housing prices in major cities across the country could fall as a result of the pandemic. Drew Angerer / Getty Images The coronavirus pandemic has many Americans heading to the hills, or the suburbs, so to speak. And city home prices could decline as a result, says Nobel Prize-winning economist …
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Text size The four largest technology companies are now worth almost as much as the next 19 largest companies listed in the United States together. Tomohiro Ohsumi / Getty Images Mega-capitalization technology companies are growing again. On another strong day for the general market on Monday, the shares were led …
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European stocks were to snap a four-session winning streak on Friday, with bullish economic data overshadowed by lingering concerns about rising virus cases in the US. The Stoxx Europe 600 SXXP Index, -0.96% It fell 0.6% to 365.91, just after a gain of close to 2% on Thursday. For the …
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