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Gold set for seventh straight weekly rise on US shutdown woes, rate cut bets  Reuters Gold Is Headed Higher. There’s a Safer Way to Bet on the Rally.  Barron’s Gold set for seventh straight weekly rise on U.S. shutdown woes, rate cut bets  CNBC Gold Isn’t the Only Metal That’s Shining—Silver and Platinum Prices Are Surging Too  Investopedia Gold Short-term Outlook: XAU/USD Overbought Rally …

BofA Global Research moves Fed rate cut forecast to October from December  Reuters How an October Fed rate cut could impact mortgages, according to experts  CBS News Fed Expected To Cut Interest Rates Again In October  Forbes The government shutdown is likely to cement additional Fed interest rate cuts  CNBC Fed likely to hold steady as data blackout clouds rate outlook  Mortgage Professional America Source …

Leading our coverage this week was the passing of famed primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall, who died of natural causes on Wednesday (Oct. 1) at age 91. Goodall became renowned for her pioneering studies of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park. She arrived at the park early in her career with no formal academic training in …

U.S. adults’ ratings of the national economy continue to be more negative than positive: 26% now say economic conditions are excellent or good, while 74% say they are only fair or poor. These overall ratings are mostly unchanged during the past three years. But Republicans and Democrats have shifted considerably over this period: 44% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents now …

An international team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have spotted a rogue planet breaking a new record; growing at a rate of 6 billion tonnes per second. Rogue planets – sometimes called free-floating planets – are interstellar, planetary-mass objects that are not gravitationally bound to a star or a brown dwarf, but float …

Mortgage Calculator: Here’s How Much You Need To Buy a $425,000 Home at a 6.34% Rate  Realtor.com Why are mortgage rates increasing despite a rate cut from the Fed?  Fox Business Average long-term US mortgage rate ticks up for second straight week, to 6.34%  ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos Current refi mortgage rates report for Oct. 1, 2025  Fortune Mortgage …

U.S. stock futures rose on Friday morning as optimism related to the artificial intelligence (AI) wave and increasing hopes of interest rate cuts offset concerns about the ongoing government shutdown. Futures on the Nasdaq 100 (NDX), the S&P 500 (SPX), and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) were up 0.13%, 0.13%, and 0.18%, respectively, at 8:28 a.m. EST on October 3. Elevate Your Investing Strategy: …

Asian stocks poised for weekly gains on rate cut wagers, AI fervour  Reuters Asia markets track gains on Wall Street as investors look past government shutdown  CNBC Asian Stocks Set to Fall in Break with Wall Street: Markets Wrap  Bloomberg.com Asian shares are mixed as tech shares lead Wall Street ticks to more records  The Hill Markets surge on US rate hopes, tech fired …

WASHINGTON — The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage ticked up for the second straight week following a string of declines that had brought down home borrowing costs to their lowest level in nearly a year. The average long-term mortgage rate rose this week to 6.34% from 6.3% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year ago, …

Fannie Mae predicts major mortgage rate change coming soon  TheStreet Current mortgage rates report for Oct. 1, 2025: Rates holding steady  Fortune Mortgage and refinance interest rates today, September 30, 2025: The 30-year takes a nice dip  Yahoo Finance Mortgage Rates Hold Flat to Start New Week  Mortgage News Daily Homebuyers are waiting for 6% mortgage rates — When could it actually happen?  CNBC Source …