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The 30-year fixed rates measured by Mortgage News Daily climbed about half a percentage point from the final day in February through the end of March.

From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026

In the last year MKM's traffic from AI has increased from almost nothing to "a low double-figure percentage", and it's still going up.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

“Brokerage inventories are far smaller as a percentage of investments than ever before and, as a result, market makers are less able to intermediate in extremely volatile markets.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

That set a record for a candidate’s contribution in a state race at the time, but Whitman lost to Jerry Brown by nearly 13 percentage points.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

During the 1990s, the unemployment rate fell by 2 percentage points; nonviolent crime, meanwhile, fell by roughly 40 percent.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt