MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Education will begin releasing year-end incentives to its personnel following a directive from President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., covering the service ...

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The Bank of Japan moved to slow inflation as the prime minister is borrowing more to fund an ambitious effort to build up industry and support households. By River Akira Davis Reporting from Tokyo ...

The Federal Reserve’s final monetary move of 2026 gave markets a clearer but still-incomplete vision of where interest rates might be heading next year—a year likely marked by continued concerns over ...

Employers added 64,000 jobs in November, according to data delayed by the government shutdown. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.6 percent, the highest level in four years. +400,000 The average job ...

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Mortgage rates hovered in the low 6.0% range to start 2026 — slightly higher than the week prior but much lower than where they stood last January. The U.S. 30-year fixed mortgage rate averaged 6.16% ...

Credit card interest rates resumed dropping in the second half of 2025, closing out the year at 19.7%, about a percentage point lower than the record high set in August of 2024. And while Bankrate ...

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