Housing Starts Increased in April But Are Down From Last Year

The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index rose by eight points in November to 101.7, after 34 months of remaining below the 50-year average of 98, the National Federation of Independent Business reported.

ABA members believe that the Federal Reserve’s discount window processes and operations are opaque, awkward and inefficient, and they have several suggestions for how to improve the service, ABA said.

The CFPB is seeking public input in advance of a proposed rule to extend the Fair Credit Reporting Act’s identity theft protections to certain negative information on the credit reports of victims of domestic violence, elder abuse or...

The Federal Reserve issued a technical clarification stating that its account access guidelines apply to excess balance accounts, or EBAs.

The Securities and Exchange Commission should withdraw a staff accounting bulletin that changed how banks and other publicly traded entities account for obligations to safeguard digital assets, SEC Commissioner Mark Uyeda said.

Consumer inflation expectations increased slightly at the short-, medium-, and longer-term horizons in November, the New York Fed said in its most recent Survey of Consumer Expectations.