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Sean Torr is a Deloitte Risk and Financial Advisory managing director for Deloitte & Touche LLP. He leads the Lease Accounting Services group. He has more than 20 years of experience assisting large, complex clients with accounting convergence implications and financial reporting requirements.

Jeanne McGovern is an Audit & Assurance partner for Deloitte & Touche LLP. She has 35 years of experience auditing global companies and working on mergers and acquisitions, financing transactions and other issues facing multinational companies. Currently, she is serving as a senior leadership partner overseeing Deloitte's services for the new lease standard.

Mark Davis is an Audit & Assurance partner and national managing partner of Deloitte Private Enterprises for Deloitte & Touche LLP. He has guided many clients through initial public offerings, the registration statement processes, and spin-offs/carve-outs and acquisitions. He has more than 30 years of experience working with companies from varied industries, including music, technology, media, health care providers, retailers and distributors.

The bill, similar to legislation that passed the chamber last year, would permit the inclusion of items such as rent and telecom payments to help consumers build their credit profiles.

Title insurers benefited from the increase in origination volume — especially refinancings — during the second quarter, as open order counts increased compared with one year prior.

Altisource Portfolio Solutions cut its previous-quarter net loss by 49% in its most recent fiscal period, when property maintenance revenue and new Hubzu real estate auction site inventory increased.

Chris Skisak, PhD, is executive director of the Houston Business Coalition on Health.

Bond market investors acted cautiously in the wake of next week's Federal Open Market Committee meeting and that likely resulted in mortgage rates moving lower this past week.

Bryce Doty is senior vice president and senior portfolio manager at Sit Fixed Income.

From Big Sky Country to the peaks of Colorado, here's a look at the metro areas offering owners the most stability and appreciation in home prices over the past 25 years.