Author: Paul Davidson, USA TODAY

Consumers will be able to more easily use their preferred digital wallets at more locations under a new Citigroup service.

Fewer first-time and lower-income homebuyers are likely to get mortgages under tougher standards adopted by the Federal Housing Administration

Midsize, more affordable housing markets that had been hot are seeing sharper price hikes and slower sales. More buyers are turning to smaller cities.

The Federal Reserve held its key short-term interest rate steady and cut its forecast for the economy and rate hikes in 2019.

The Fed is likely to keep its key rate unchanged. New economic and rate forecasts are on tap and Fed may announce move that keeps long-term rates low

A smaller share of workers who prefer part-time jobs are taking them because of health coverage. Obamacare is not as attractive as it was in 2014.

The February jobs report yielded winners and losers. Winners included those without a high school diploma, while unemployment rose for black workers

Only two metro areas are in recession, the least in decades. Elmira, New York and Danville, Illinois, are factory towns struggling to reinvent themselves

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett bemoaned a lack of acquisition targets for Berkshire Hathaway and noted the company’s big stock holdings grew .