Heading into 2025, Zillow’s 12-month forecast for U.S. home prices was +2.6%. However, many housing markets across the country softened faster than expected, prompting Zillow to issue several downward revisions. By April 2025, Zillow had cut its 12-month national home price outlook to -1.7%.

Until now, America’s largest home improvement retailer has limited what it has said about the impact of tariffs on its prices. But after reporting quarterly results Tuesday, CFO Richard McPhail said Home Depot would have to implement some price increases as a result of the Trump administration’s taxes on imports.

Oil prices climbed about 2% on Wednesday on a bigger-than-expected weekly drop in U.S. crude inventories as investors awaited the next steps in talks to end the Ukraine war, with sanctions on Russian crude remaining in place for now.

Plentiful supply and weak demand has helped bring down fuel prices, which President Trump has often cited as a measure of his success.

The median-priced single-family home in the region still sold for $967,000 in July, according to new figures released by the Greater Boston Association of Realtors.

Chile's SQM , the world's second-largest lithium producer, reported a 59% decline in quarterly profit on Wednesday due to lower lithium prices.

Bloomberg journalists answer your questions on London property prices — from affordable housing to luxury mansions

House prices climbed at their fastest pace in more than a year last month, as the market rebounded from disruption caused by changes to stamp duty. The average UK property value rose 3.7 per cent to £269,000 in the 12 months to June, up from 2.7 per cent growth in May, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Federal forecasts and multiple price trackers show continuing inflation for common items such as eggs and beef.