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A new study by Fannie Mae FNMA shows that people are fed up with the housing market and are less interested in buying a home than ever before. The monthly Home Purchase Sentiment Index dropped 2.5 points to 69.4 in May, mostly because of how people felt about buying a home, a government-backed business said on Friday. The National Housing Survey from Fannie Mae, which goes back to 2010, is used by the HPSI. It was 86% of people in May who said it was a bad time to buy a house, up from 79% the month before. The bad…

It was reported on Saturday by the Financial Times and CNBC that the world’s biggest sovereign wealth fund said it would vote against approving Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package at Tesla. This is the biggest pay package in U.S. business history, and shareholders are looking closely at it. LSEG data shows that Norway’s $1.7-trillion oil fund is the eighth-largest shareholder in Tesla. It also owns 1.5% of all the world’s listed stocks. On Saturday, the fund said it was “concerned” about the size and structure of the pay plan and how it doesn’t reduce “key person risk.” Thursday is…

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc., KKR & Co. Inc., and GoDaddy Inc., a web host, will all be added to the S&P 500 index when the market opens on June 24. This was announced late Friday night by S&P Dow Jones Indices. The company that make the index said that Crowdstrike CRWD, +2.53%, KKR KKR, -1.51%, and GoDaddy GDDY, +0.50% are more like the SPX large-cap range of the S&P 500. They take the place of Robert Half Inc. (RHI, -1.03%), Comerica Inc. (CMA, -0.93%), and Illumina Inc. (ILMN, -0.88%), which is a biotech business. Illumina will move to the S&P MidCap…

BofA Global Research strategists said Friday that U.S. technology stocks just saw the biggest weekly inflows in nine weeks. The sector is making a comeback after its megacap-led rise lost steam by the end of May. A group of strategists led by Michael Hartnett, chief investment strategist at BofA Global Research, said in a Friday client note that tech stocks saw inflows of nearly $1 billion in the week ending Wednesday. This was the biggest amount of money coming into the market in more than two months. The previous week, the same amount of money going out of the market.…

The numbers: According to the most recent government data released Friday, people were less likely to use credit cards in April, even though total consumer credit went up. As of Friday, the Federal Reserve said that total consumer credit rose $6.4 billion in April. This was up from a revised $1.1 billion drop the previous month. That’s an increase of 1.5% per year, making up for a drop of 0.3% the previous month. A poll by the Wall Street Journal found that economists had been expecting a rise of $10.2-billion. Amounts of revolving credit, such as credit cards, went down…

With less than five months to go, the 2024 presidential election is close. Polls show that the race is tied across the country and in key swing states. There are many problems that aren’t directly related to the economy that will be debated in November. However, economists and political scientists say that when the race is close, the economy can be a very important factor in deciding the winner. In an interview with MarketWatch, Justin Begley, an economist at Moody’s Analytics who helps run the company’s presidential election model, said that political factors, like a president’s approval rating and voter…

In a new filing on Friday, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas revealed more high-class holidays paid for by Harlan Crow, a Republican megadonor and real estate mogul. Other justices said they got passes to see Beyoncé and royalties from books worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. On top of their salaries, which are currently around $300,000 a year, Supreme Court justices record any extra money or gifts they receive every year. It was said that the show tickets, worth $3,711.84, were gifts from the famous singer to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Jackson also said that she had received an advance…

Most people think that the Federal Reserve will keep its key interest rate the same when their two-day meeting ends on Wednesday. However, economists will be keeping a close eye out for any hints about when the first rate cut in four years might happen. The Federal Reserve has told people to be patient because the drop in inflation has not sped up in the first three months of the year. This means that there will be no move next week. Ian Pollick, head of fixed income strategy at CIBC Capital Markets, said this. Most economists agree that the good…

The Biden administration released new rules on Tuesday that are meant to keep migrants who enter the U.S. illegally at the southern border from getting refuge. However, some experts are already questioning the move. The steps taken by President Joe Biden are meant to stop refugee requests at the U.S.-Mexico border right away. This is because they go into effect when 2,500 migrants are encountered every day at the border, and lately that number has been higher every day. Senior Biden administration officials said they think the actions will have an effect on illegal immigration at the border because people…

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France — Ahead of the 80th anniversary of D-Day, U.S. President Joe Biden met with American veterans. Help was given to veterans who could stand up so they could take pictures with the president and first lady Jill Biden. Someone gave Biden a hug. Someone else saluted. In honour of a veteran’s birthday, Biden asked the president to lead the crowd in singing “Happy Birthday.” Robert Gibson is another veteran. The first lady grabbed his arm to help him stand next to Biden while they shook hands. “Don’t get old,” the 100-year-old joked to the president, who was only…