Housing Affordability Levers FHFA, HUD and CFPB Can Pull Now

Actor Josh Duhamel isn’t ready to turn his back on Hollywood altogether—revealing that he will continue to split his time between Los Angeles, his primary residence in North Dakota, and his “prepper” cabin in Minnesota even after selling his longtime California bachelor pad. Duhamel, 53, raised significant speculation that he was preparing to quit the…

Mortgage rates could be climbing back above 7% shortly, as gains in the 10-year Treasury yield pushed one data point close to this level. Processing Content On Thursday morning, the 10-year Treasury yield, which earlier in the week had been flirting with the 4.6% mark, zoomed past this to break 4.7%. The story behind the…

Carrier Global Corporation Is Too Hot For My Comfort (Downgrade)

September arabica coffee (KCU26) today is up +4.00 (+1.29%), and September ICE robusta coffee (RMU26) is up +57 (+1.54%).  Coffee prices today rebounded higher after falling sharply on Thursday.  NY Sep coffee today edged to a new 2.5-week low, but then rebounded higher on some apparent pre-weekend short-covering following the sell-off earlier this week. Don’t…

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become the shopper’s de facto research assistant, reading Amazon and Google reviews, Reddit threads and YouTube videos before anyone opens a single tab, then handing back one synthesized answer. The platforms that built their businesses on hosting those reviews have the most to lose: AI decides which of their content reaches…