The Daily Money: More Americans being denied a loan; Powerball climbs to $1 billion
This is Amritpal Kaur Sandhu-Longoria with your Daily Money headlines. It is Tuesday – also known as the second Monday of the week.
It's getting harder for Americans to get a loan to stay afloat as loan rejection rates climb to 21.8%, up from 17.3% in February, according to a Federal Reserve survey. And while this affects every age group, people with credit scores lower than 680 were the most rejected.
The rejected loan applications mostly pertain to auto loans, credit cards, credit card limit increase requests and mortgage refinancing. It comes at a time when financial institutions are getting cautious over a looming recession and major banks like Citigroup, begin to set aside more money to cover delinquencies.
Powerball jackpot climbs to $1 billion
Since nobody won Monday night's $900 million Powerball, the next drawing is at $1 billion. Numbers will be released Wednesday night at 11 p.m. ET. While people did match some numbers and win prizes up to $2 million, the odds of winning the jackpot are still pretty slim − about 1 in 292.2 million.
But still, don't let those odds stop you!
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