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Can You Switch Mortgage Lenders Before Closing? 06/29/2023 08:00pm • If you're having a bad experience with a mortgage lender, you may be tempted to switch to a different one before you close on the loan. While it's possible to switch, it's important to keep the potential consequences in mind, including higher costs, delayed closing and another credit check. Dependin Mortgage Rates (and Home Prices) Rebound Higher 06/29/2023 08:00pm • Mortgage rates jumped higher this week, with the 30-year rate increasing seven basis points to 7.15%. Fixed rates increased across the board, while adjustable mortgage rates decreased or stayed about the same. Here are the current mortgage rates, without discount points unless otherwise noted, as of Can You Get a Loan for a Mobile Home? 06/29/2023 08:00pm • Mobile homes can provide the stability and comfort of a traditional home but at a much lower price. The catch? Financing a mobile home can be more difficult than taking out a regular mortgage. Here's what you need to know if you want a mobile home loan. What Are Mobile Home Loan Requirements?If you 5 of the Best Stocks to Buy Now 06/29/2023 08:00pm • The stock market is surging once again. The Nasdaq-100 in particular is up more than 36% year to date through June 29, making for one of the best performances in tech stock history over a half-year period. New investing themes such as artificial intelligence have sprung to life, lifting valuations f Reasons Retirees Carry Debt 06/29/2023 08:00pm • Amid economic changes, many retirees are watching their budgets tighten. The number of seniors living in poverty is at a 20-year high, according to data released in 2022 from the U.S. Census Bureau. This demographic often finds it difficult to keep up with payments. Among retirees, 71% have debt not Virginia sheriff, 3 businessmen, indicted on federal bribery charges 06/29/2023 05:58pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia sheriff has been indicted on federal public corruption charges for allegedly handing out auxiliary deputy sheriff’s appointments in exchange for cash bribes and large donations to his reelection campaign. Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins is charged in a 16-c Haiti's soccer team hopes to keep inspiring fans in its historic debut at the Women's World Cup 06/29/2023 03:38pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — They don’t have any sponsors, their training center closed because of gang violence and some of their biggest fans can’t afford a TV. Haiti’s soccer team earned a place at the Women's World Cup despite all those obstacles, and remains undeterred. Haiti will make The Supreme Court made big decisions this week and more are coming. Here's what you need to know 06/29/2023 02:53pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is expected to announce major decisions Friday on President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness program and a case that impacts gay rights. It's the court's final day before the justices go on their summer break. Already this week the justices have released imp US economic growth last quarter is revised up sharply to a 2% annual rate 06/29/2023 12:55pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Showing surprising resilience in the face of higher interest rates, the U.S. economy grew at a 2% annual pace from January through March as consumers spent at the fastest pace in nearly two years. Thursday's revised figure from the Commerce Department sharply upgraded its assessm Average long-term US mortgage rate rises to 6.71% in first increase after three straight drops 06/29/2023 12:24pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate rose this week, snapping a three-week pullback after reaching a high for the year in early June. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate on the benchmark 30-year home loan rose to 6.71% from 6.67% last week. A year United States winger Weah has medical test at Juventus ahead of potential transfer from Lille 06/29/2023 12:14pm • TURIN, Italy (AP) — United States winger Tim Weah was welcomed by about 100 enthusiastic Juventus fans as he arrived Thursday for his medical test ahead of a potential transfer to the Italian club. Weah signed autographs and posed for selfies with fans, who loudly chanted his name. Some were also IMF says that without reforms, Lebanon faces ballooning inflation and public debt 06/29/2023 11:31am • BEIRUT (AP) — Without reforms, Lebanon will continue to see triple-digit inflation, and public debt in the small, crisis-ridden country could reach nearly 550% of GDP by 2027, the International Monetary Fund warned in a report Thursday. The report came as a follow-up to a nine-day visit by IMF off JPMorgan Chase commits $7.7M to DC affordable housing 06/29/2023 11:00am • Three D.C. nonprofits that support affordable housing efforts for underserved households in the District will share grants from JPMorgan Chase, totaling $7.65 million. Chase Home Lending has also expanded a separate homebuyer grant program in D.C. Chase said the largest share of grant money, $ Belarus leader welcomes Wagner forces but others in the country see them as a threat 06/29/2023 10:14am • As life in Russia returned to normal after an armed rebellion by a mercenary group, tensions were rising in and around its neighbor Belarus, where the exiled leader of the force and some of its fighters were settling in. Moving to Belarus was part of the deal the Kremlin struck with Yevgeny Prigozhi Shooting kills 2 in India's troubled northeast as opposition leader Rahul Gandhi visits region 06/29/2023 09:47am • GUWAHATI, India (AP) — India’s top opposition leader Rahul Gandhi visited Thursday communities hit by weeks of violence and living in relief camps in a remote northeastern state as a shootout there claimed two more lives. The shooting erupted earlier in the day between members of the majority M