America's Housing Market Is Going K-Shaped — AI Millionaires Are Buying While Everyone Else Sits Out

America's housing market is increasingly splitting along a K-shaped trajectory: wealthy buyers are continuing to spend on luxury homes, while high mortgage rates are keeping many middle-income

Benzinga03:01

Who's Redecorating in a Sluggish Housing Market -- Barrons.com

By Shaina Mishkin The busy season for home sales is winding down with a whimper while mortgage rates move closer to 7%. What's a stuck-in-place homeowner or renter to do now? For some, the answer is

Barron'sSep 6 14:30

Strategy, Home Depot, ServiceNow, Nebius, Caterpillar Insider Shock

TipRanksSep 5 21:00

As U.S. consumption downgrades and hedge funds retreat, Wall Street adopts an attitude of "indifference and caution" toward retail stocks.

Accelerating sales at U.S. discount stores, coupled with slowing growth momentum at Walmart and Costco, have sparked market discussions about consumption downgrading. Goldman Sachs notes that U.S. hedge funds’ aggregate exposure to retail stocks has fallen to multi-year lows, indicating a systematic withdrawal of institutional capital from the sector. UBS Group characterizes market sentiment as "apathetic, cautious, and frustrated," warning that consumer stocks face multiple headwinds, including shrinking purchasing power, high interest rates, tariffs, freight costs, and geopolitical turbulence.

wallstreetcnSep 5 07:05

FICO Stock Falls Pre-Market After Bill Pulte Declares 'No More' to FICO's Mortgage Scoring Monopoly — Orders Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac to Open Door to VantageScore

Bill Pulte, the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), has instructed Fannie Mae (OTC:FNMA) and Freddie Mac (OTC:FMCC) to permit all lenders to utilize the VantageScore credit

BenzingaSep 4 16:57

Consumer Cos Up on Rate Hopes - Consumer Roundup

Consumer companies rose amid hopes that the U.S. would avert a rate hike. Shares of home-improvement stores Lowe's and Home Depot rose by 1% or more after a governor at the Federal Reserve laid out

Dow JonesSep 4 04:56