Demand among Americans, who are already holding record levels of debt, for help financing weddings are giving rise to an industry of personal loans marketed specifically to brides and grooms, the Washington Post reported. Online lenders say they are issuing up to four times as many “wedding loans” as they did a year ago, as...

Investor purchases of U.S. homes have climbed to an all-time high, a sign that rising home prices have done little to dampen demand for flipping homes or turning them into single-family rentals, the Wall Street Journal reported. Big private-equity firms, real-estate speculators and others that buy properties comprised more than 11...

The Federal Reserve is scheduled to release results of annual stress tests for big banks in two parts, one today, and the other on Thursday, June 27. The firms could have an easier time with the exams because the Fed for this year overhauled several components, including a test of how firms would fare under a hypothetical doomsday...