On May 30, the Education Department’s Federal Student Aid office announced the new federal student loan interest rates for ...

Loan payments are currently on pause, with 0% interest, but any loan taken out after July will have a higher interest rate. Mark Kantrowitz explains.

The borrowing cost for student loans is poised to reach a 16-year high. The interest rate on a federal undergraduate student loan is expected to climb to 6.5% in July, which would mark its highest ...

Student loan refinancing rates continue to drop. Based on an analysis of 23 lenders’ advertised rates, the average minimum fixed interest rate on refinanced student loans was 3.51% on July 1. That’s a ...

According to the CME FedWatch, there’s a 95% chance that the Fed will cut its target interest rate by 25 basis points at its meeting on Sept. 17, 2025. “The Federal Reserve is attempting to balance ...

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Sen. Timothy M. Kaine, D-Va., says he hopes the Senate will find a way to avoid the automatic doubling of interest rates on undergraduate subsidized Stafford student loans by a July 1 deadline. “We’re ...

At just 17 years old, Alyssa Jeacoma signed off on student loans without fully grasping what she was getting into. With little financial education and no guidance from her parents — who themselves had ...