Mortgage rates hold steady

Last year, the Federal Home Loan Banks supported $8.4 billion in lending in areas with constrained credit availability and enabled their members to offer longer-term, more affordable financing options to households and communities, FHFA said in its annual...

President Trump nominated Danielle Thumann, senior counsel to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr, to serve as commissioner on the FCC. If confirmed by the Senate, Thumann would fill one of two vacant seats on the commission.

The Senate adjourned without holding a final vote on the Clarity Act, punting further action on the bill until at least September.

FinCEN renewed a geographic targeting order requiring certain banks and money transmitters located in Hennepin and Ramsey counties, which include Minneapolis and St. Paul, to report additional information for transactions of $3,000 or more to recipients outside the...

Consumer credit increased at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 2.6% in the second quarter, with revolving and nonrevolving credit increasing 3.9% and 2.1%.

Consumer inflation expectations in July decreased slightly at the short-term horizon and remained unchanged at the medium- and longer-term horizons, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said in its most recent Survey of Consumer Expectations.