Coronavirus and Your Money

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• What to know about operating your business from home during COVID-19

  Here’s what to know about insurance needs and precautions when operating a business from your home.

  4 min read Aug 07, 2020

  

• Coronavirus hurts housing affordability: The 5 most and least affordable metro areas

  With steep home prices, California metro areas are the nation’s least affordable.

  3 min read Aug 07, 2020

  

• 8 ways to help rescue the job market from coronavirus-driven unemployment crisis

  Ending the crisis depends largely on eradicating the virus and the economic problems it opened up. 

  8 min read Aug 07, 2020

  

• With home prices skyrocketing in certain cities, buyers ask themselves: Is it even worth it?

  A huge home-value gap has opened up between coastal cities and the rest of the U.S.

  5 min read Aug 07, 2020

  

• Nationwide shortage of homes for sale, with California the epicenter

  During the coronavirus pandemic droves of buyers, but few who want to sell their homes.

  3 min read Aug 06, 2020

  

• As mortgage rates fall to record lows, beware refinance deals with hefty costs

  A super-low interest rate can come with super-high costs and fees.

  5 min read Aug 05, 2020

  

• 6 ways to bounce back from crushing levels of debt

  Debt can be overwhelming. Here’s a plan to help you bounce back.

  5 min read Aug 04, 2020

  

• Mortgage rates dip below 3% again, Freddie Mac says

  The typical cost of a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was 2.99 percent this week, the mortgage giant said.

  1 min read Jul 30, 2020

  

• Fed leaves rates alone, says economy will ‘depend significantly on the course of the virus’

  It’s unlikely that the financial and economic calamity will be reversed anytime soon.

  7 min read Jul 29, 2020

  

• Second $1,200 stimulus check and reduced unemployment insurance boost: How HEALS Act could affect you

  The proposal sets the stage for a divisive clash among party lines, and the clock is ticking.

  6 min read Jul 28, 2020