Podcast: The community bank M&A outlook for 2023

The rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was 6.72% this week. The rate for a 15-year fixed-rate mortgage was 5.86%.

Following the enactment of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, hear from ABA experts on how key ABA-supported provisions on tax policy, rural real estate and health savings accounts in the budget reconciliation law will affect banks.

Federal Open Market Committee members remain somewhat split on the long-term effects of the Trump administration’s tariff policy on inflation, according to the minutes.

Consumer credit increased at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.2% in May, the Federal Reserve reported.

Business First Bancshares in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has agreed to buy Progressive Bancorp in Monroe.

Consumer inflation expectations in June ticked down at the short-term horizon but remained flat at the medium- and longer-term horizons, according to the most recent Survey of Consumer Expectations.