Oil and gasoline prices are expected to decline next year, according to the latest forecast from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). The EIA published its November Short-Term Energy Outlook last month, which projected that the price of Brent crude oil will decline from $69 a barrel in 2025 to $55…

Malcolm MacGregor/Getty Images As home prices keep rising, so do conforming loan limits, the number that distinguishes the most common loan types from jumbo loans. These limits vary from year to year and by geographic area. What is the conforming loan limit? The conforming loan limit is set each year…

With investors getting increasingly anxious about the nosebleed valuations of public stocks, Goldman Sachs announced Monday morning that it’s spending $2 billion to buy Innovator Capital Management, a firm that will cushion its clients from a crash.Wheaton, Illinois-based Innovator manages $28 billion in assets, mostly in defined-outcome ETFs which use…

If you want to buy a high-priced home and need to finance most of the purchase, you’ll need a larger-than-usual mortgage: a jumbo loan. Here’s how jumbos work, and the current limits, state by state. Jumbo loans earn their title because they’re big, so big they exceed the conforming loan…