US mortgage rates hit their highest level in three years
Rising borrowing costs have pushed mortgage applications to their lowest level since February 2025.
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Rising borrowing costs have pushed mortgage applications to their lowest level since February 2025.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is pitching a yield of about 11% on a $5 billion leveraged-loan sale on behalf of Volta Infrastructure Holdings Ltd., one of the highest borrowing costs seen in the market for risky debt that’s become popular for financing the AI boom.
Financial Times Alphaville editor and author of A Fabulous Debt Robin Wigglesworth tells Bloomberg This Weekend that rising bond yields reflect resilient growth and higher inflation expectations, but could increasingly constrain US spending as debt-service costs climb. Speaking with host David Gura, Wigglesworth explains why bonds underpin the global financial system and why today’s higher rates matter more in a heavily indebted economy. Interview occurred on September 26, 2026 (Source: Bloomberg)
The UK’s long-term borrowing costs reached 6% for the first time in almost three decades, as concerns about persistently elevated inflation and a challenging budgetary position continued to mount.
The Czech Republic, one of the last major holdouts of the era of spiraling government debt, is embarking on an unprecedented spending spree just as the costs of borrowing surge.
Rate-hike bets and RBI’s liquidity withdrawal are driving up funding costs.
Two state-run Indian companies have withdrawn plans to raise $688 million through rupee bonds as an expected interest-rate increase and the central bank’s move to drain surplus cash drive borrowing costs higher.
Treasury yields are surging past 5%, threatening to push up borrowing costs on everything from mortgages and car loans to credit cards. Ruth Carson explains why the impact is being felt far beyond Wall Street and the US. (Source: Bloomberg)
The US Treasury said it will purchase up to $6 billion of longer-dated government debt on Thursday, in line with the first such operation under Secretary Scott Bessent’s expanded program to stem the recent rise in borrowing costs.
Adolescentes cuentan que los GLP-1 aparecen por todas partes en sus redes. Médicos alertan que la presión por adelgazar, las imitaciones online y los vacíos de control pueden agravar trastornos alimentarios. (Source: Bloomberg)
African countries face some of the world’s highest borrowing costs, with ratings driving up interest and cutting off access to international capital. Now the African Union is fighting back with its own credit rating agency