Laurel Wamsley

Washington, D.C., United States

Personal Finance Correspondent at NPR

Personal Finance Correspondent, NPR. Still into cities and bikes.

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How to manage your investments during volatile markets

1 week ago | ctpublic.org | Laurel Wamsley

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How to manage your investments during volatile markets

1 week ago | npr.org | Laurel Wamsley

How to manage your investments during volatile marketsHow to manage your investments during volatile markets Audio will be available later today. Amid stock market volatility, polling finds most Americans believe their finances are deteriorating. Financial analysts advise global diversification and for recent retirees to rein in spending.
Market volatility has Americans worried about their investments

2 weeks ago | wgbh.org | Laurel Wamsley

April 30, 2025 MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:And now to Wall Street. Since President Trump took office, the S&P 500 has plummeted by more than 7%. That is the worst performance in a president’s first hundred days since the early 1970s. For many Americans, that has meant anxiety about their retirement accounts, and as NPR’s Laurel Wamsley reports, some people are reassessing when they will be able to stop working. LAUREL WAMSLEY, BYLINE: For Lora Anderson, the last few weeks have brought uneasiness.
Market volatility has Americans worried about their investments

2 weeks ago | knpr.org | Laurel Wamsley

The S&P 500 is down about 8% since President Trump took office — that's the worst performance in a president's first 100 days since the early 1970s.
Home sales just posted their biggest monthly fall since 2022

2 weeks ago | mprnews.org | Laurel Wamsley

The spring housing market was supposed to boom. Instead, it's whimpering. Existing home sales in March slumped 5.9 percent from February — the largest month-to-month decline since November 2022when seasonally adjusted. Compared to a year ago, sales in March were down 2.4 percent from March 2024. The decline came as something of a surprise, following an uptick in sales in February.
More homes are finally hitting the market this spring. Will buyers take the plunge? : NPR

1 month ago | npr.org | Laurel Wamsley

After a couple extremely slow years, more inventory is finally hitting the market this spring. But buyers might be put off by high prices and an unsteady economy.
More homes are finally hitting the spring market. Will buyers take the plunge?

1 month ago | wgbh.org | Laurel Wamsley

April 03, 2025 It’s springtime, and “For Sale” signs are popping up in front of homes across the country. But with so much uncertainty in the economy, it’s an open question whether the spring housing market will be hot … or not. Let’s check out the forecast. Mortgage rates and home prices are both highIt’s certainly not the cheapest time to buy a home. The average 30-year mortgage rate is now 6.65% , down a bit from January, but still pretty high.
Remembering Val Kilmer, whose roles helped define the 1980s and '90s on screen

1 month ago | wfdd.org | Neda Ulaby |Marc Silver |Laurel Wamsley

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The government already knows a lot about you. DOGE is trying to access all of it

2 months ago | ideastream.org | Laurel Wamsley

Elon Musk's team within the Trump administration has sought sweeping access to databases that store personal information on millions and millions of Americans. The data collected and maintained by the government isn't just your name, home address, and Social Security number. Some federal agencies store information that many people don't share even with their closest friends and family: Medical diagnoses and treatment. Notes from therapy sessions. Whether a person has filed for bankruptcy.
March 11, 2020: The day everything changed

2 months ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Laurel Wamsley

Five years on, the onset of the coronavirus pandemic is still fresh – though the speed of the news cycle can make it feel like long ago. Some hallmarks of the pandemic era are still common: Working from home, at least some of the time. Zooming or FaceTiming with friends and associates. Masks and nasal swab tests tucked into a drawer. While some changes happened gradually, there was one day that marked the beginning of the new era. March 11, 2020.

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