PCE inflation remains sticky as Fed weighs next move

Key takeaway: The personal consumption expenditure index, the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation, increased to 3.7% in July. Supporting data: Core PCE inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, rose 3.3% from a year earlier. What’s at stake: Federal funds futures contracts tracked by CME Group showed Wednesday that just under 60% of

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Michael Drayne, senior vice president of capital markets, Housing Policy Council

Standardized tech could reduce $200 million mortgage collateral costs

Now that use of artificial intelligence is closer to critical mass, industry collaboration could help remove considerable costs related to moving data from physical collateral documents as mortgage assets trade, according to the Housing Policy Council. Processing Content HPC estimates that the lack of advanced technology for exchanging collateral data from documents costs the market

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