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Each month, NerdWallet suggests one wallet win to help you feel more confident about your money. This month’s topic is sale shopping with purpose. Fun, right? Notch a win in just 20 minutes, but act quickly because October sales are coming in hot. Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days is Oct. 6-7, and you can expect…

Mortgage rates are a little higher this morning and could keep going up as the U.S.-Iran ceasefire appears to have fallen apart. The “are a little higher” happened because the United States resumed strikes on Iran yesterday in response to reported Iranian strikes on ships in the Strait of Hormuz. The “could keep going” is…

This article originally appeared in NerdWallet’s investing newsletter, the Nerdy Investor. You can subscribe for free here. Crypto has managed to shrug off several pieces of bad news in the last few weeks. The Fed hiked interest rates in mid-September, and signaled that it will likely do so again before the end of the year,…

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Mortgage rates are still softening as markets continue to digest the less-than-stellar June jobs report. The average interest rate on a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage ticked down to 6.36% APR, according to rates provided to NerdWallet by Zillow. This is two basis points lower than yesterday and four basis points lower than a week ago. (See…