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Residential starts increased 3.9% last month to a 1.45 million annualized rate, according to government data released Wednesday.

The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo gauge decreased six points to a three-month low of 50. The figure was below all estimates in a Bloomberg survey of economists.

Removing such debt information from consumer reports generated an uptick in home loan inquiries in one study and other industries have found advanced score use pays off.

The credit-reporting agency was fined $650,000 for sending customers marketing emails without an option to unsubscribe. Financial institutions are subject to the same law, called the CAN-SPAM Act.

The new entity from Roc360 will be an outlet for loans produced by the company and its two recently acquired businesses, Civic Financial and Finance of America Commercial.

HUD has rolled out its 90-day foreclosure moratorium and the government-sponsored enterprises are providing up to a year of forbearance with fees or penalties.

Loans to buy newly constructed properties increased by 0.2% from June and was up 35.5% compared to the year prior, the Mortgage Bankers Association found.

The verdict ends a decade-long lawsuit over the Federal Housing Finance Agency's amendment to a stock repurchase agreement in 2012.

All six companies reported a shift on a quarter-to-quarter basis, and most were still off from a year ago.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to propose rules to require that data brokers comply with the Fair Credit Reporting Act to limit data from being sold for any reason other than what Congress has specified as having a "permissible purpose," such as credit underwriting.