• US 30-year mortgage rate hits highest in nearly three years
    By Ann Saphir Oct 7 (Reuters) – The interest rate on the most common US home loan jumped last week to its highest in almost three years, worsening affordability for buyers four weeks before elections that will decide if President Donald Trump’s Republicans keep control of Congress.  The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage surged 19 basis points […]
  • North Dakota rides soy boom, fueled by biofuels and China
    By Julie Ingwersen FARGO, North Dakota, Oct 7 (Reuters) – In a small outdoor plot in Fargo, North Dakota, plant breeder Carrie Dottey crouched over a tiny flower on a leafy green soybean plant, conducting research that could help convert the state, known for its wheat, into a soybean powerhouse.  No state has increased soybean […]
  • Failed polygraph played role in the loss of Trump ally Kurt Olsen’s security clearance, sources say
    By Andrew Goudsward, Jonathan Landay, Erin Banco and Ned Parker WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) – Kurt Olsen, a Justice Department lawyer who has been a leading Trump administration proponent of false claims the 2020 election was stolen, had his DOJ security clearance terminated last month after failing a polygraph test, according to two people familiar […]
  • Exclusive-US consumer watchdog examiners adopt lighter touch amid pressure and threats, sources say
    By Douglas Gillison WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) – Examiners at the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau gave a largely clean bill of health to most of the companies they inspected earlier this year, a light-touch approach that marked a departure from the past for the watchdog, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.  The […]
  • Trump Links France Riots To Mass Immigration
    (Washington, DC) — President Trump is blaming the ongoing student protests in France on “mass migration.” In a Truth Social post Tuesday, Trump said, “What’s happening in France is nothing less than out of control mass migration. This isn’t about schools, this is about Islam wanting to take over a once great Country!” U.S. Ambassador […]