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Contract closings increased 3.4% from a month earlier — the most since February — to a 3.96 million annualized rate, according to data released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors.

Existing efforts to reform the Federal Home Loan Bank System may look dead on arrival in a Trump administration, but the proposed Department of Government Efficiency may not be able to resist such low-hanging fruit.

Apartment complexes will be the next major source of problems in the commercial real estate market after offices were hit hard in recent years, according to the short seller Carson Block.

Amid steady customer growth, USAA's banking arm failed to make the investments necessary to satisfy either its regulators or some decades-long customers. Changes in the executive suite haven't fixed the problems.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has significantly raised the transaction threshold for its larger participant rule — which defines which firms will be affected — from 5 million annual payments to 50 million.

Kaitlyn White is the human resource manager at Cognito Forms.

Critical defects increased for the second consecutive three-month period, with appraisal-related errors nearly doubling, Aces Quality Management said.

The Federal Reserve governor said the Supreme Court ruling could bring needed transparency and efficiency to regulatory policymaking.

In a congressional hearing, top officials from the Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said no new rules will be adopted or proposed this year.

Vista Point Mortgage and Rockport Mortgage reported attacks on their systems, with over 14,000 customers potentially affected by compromised data.