SYDNEY — Australian house prices recorded their first monthly decline in almost two years in December, but relief for the market appears close amid growing speculation that the Reserve Bank of Australia will start cutting interest rates from February.

Tata Motors’ sales edged higher in the final quarter of 2024 thanks to a rise in passenger-vehicle sales.

European stock markets end year with gains

U.S. stock markets will close on Thursday of next week in honor of former President Jimmy Carter, continuing a long-held Wall Street tradition in mourning the nation’s leaders

Data shows credit card defaults jumped 50% in 2024 from the year before to the highest since 2010

Stock indexes closed mostly lower on Wall Street on the final day of another record-setting year

Stocks fell on Wall Street as a strong year for the market looks set to end on a sour note

Federal officials say the United States saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness, a dramatic rise driven mostly by a lack of affordable housing as well as devastating natural disasters and a surge of migrants in several parts of the country

Stocks are closing lower as Wall Street ends a holiday-shortened week on a down note