Mortgage rates rise

While sentiment has slipped somewhat, community bankers nationwide remain broadly optimistic about future economic conditions, according to the latest quarterly survey by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors.

Advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for June 2026 were $768.6 billion, up 0.2% from the previous month, and up 6.7% from June 2025.

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 NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index.

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.