Consumer worries over the virus' spread dampened enthusiasm early this month.
More firms are taking stringent measures to protect employees and clients.
How severe a financial hit New York City will take during the COVID-19 pandemic is as much of an unknown as the degree of virus spread.
The social and economic impact of the coronavirus, not necessarily Covid-19 itself, has homebuyers and sellers on edge and is changing the way Realtors do business.
Covid-19 and the economic fallout that has come with it are putting some homebuyers and sellers in the Twin Cities on edge.
If banks are unable to weather the economic fallout from the outbreak, calls for more dramatic reforms could get louder.
Cash use will suffer because of this outbreak, and there are factors other than germs contributing to this trend. A growing work-from-home workforce will funnel more shoppers into digital channels, including ones they may have never tried before.
No-interest loans and overdraft forgiveness are among the lifelines banks are offering to consumers and small businesses whose livelihoods are being upended by the economic fallout.
Increased refinancing volume led Fannie Mae to raise its 2020 estimate by $300 billion and 2021 projection by $280 billion.
Not so long after Treasury bond yields experienced an unprecedented drop, the average 30-year mortgage rate rose, reflecting volatility related to the coronavirus as well as capacity issues on multiple levels.