Mortgage rates fall

Advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for June 2026, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $768.6 billion, up 0.2% from the previous month, and up 6.7%...

Builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes was 34 in July, down two points from an upwardly revised reading of 36 in June, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market...

Economic activity increased at a slight to moderate pace in eleven of twelve Federal Reserve districts in late May and June, while one district reported no change, the Fed said in its fifth Beige Book report of the...

Congress should enact legislation to better define “unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices” to avoid abuses by future regulators, and to fund the CFPB through congressional appropriation to make it more responsive to elected officials, CFPB Acting...

ABA expressed support for the Federal Communications Commission’s draft proposal to strengthen the Robocall Mitigation Database in a letter sent in advance of a vote on issuing the proposal.

The Producer Price Index for final demand edged down 0.3% in June, seasonally adjusted, according to a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report.