Mortgage rates eased downward a little this week, but they're still firmly north of 7%.The average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage slid eight basis points to 7.26% APR in the week ending Oct. 22, according to rates provided to NerdWallet by Zillow. (A basis point is one one-hundredth of a percentage point.) We calculate...

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One in three Americans may experience "retirement drift" — when retirement savings get fragmented, complicated, and harder to manage with each job change. A recent online poll of 2,005 U.S. adults, commissioned by Empower, found more than four in five (84%) have changed employers at least once in their career, and 39% have their retirement […]