Mortgage rates are based on bonds and bonds take their most important cues from big ticket economic reports. But such reports have been in short supply so far this week. Instead, the market has been left to focus mainly on speeches from various Federal Reserve officials. Fed speeches can certainly have an impact, but it […]

President Donald Trump said Democrats must drop their demands for renewing health care subsidies and ending Medicaid cuts before he’ll agree to negotiate with congressional leaders at a meeting they planned for Thursday, ratcheting up the risk of an Oct. 1 government shutdown. “After reviewing the details of the unserious and ridiculous demands being made

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) issued a proposed rule to repeal its Fair Lending, Fair Housing and Equitable Housing Finance Plan requirements — regulations it finalized barely a year ago — and is inviting the public to comment on this proposal until Sept. 26. It is one of the agency’s swiftest reversals of a