Politics

None of the economists surveyed by Wolters Kluwer predict the Fed will cut rates at this week's meeting, few expect one in July and 41% said after September.

A survey from Redfin reveals that Americans are unsure about how President Trump's policies will affect home prices.

The National Fair Housing Alliance accuses the department of using inaccurate statistics to justify deep cuts to fair housing programs

The House and Senate will need to resolve a slight difference between their versions of the bill before sending it to President Donald Trump for his signature.

A Trump-appointed judge refused to dismiss a settlement between the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and a Chicago mortgage lender over lending practices that an appeals court already said violated the Equal Credit Opportunity Act.

The past two Federal Reserve vice chairs for supervision failed to implement the final installment of the Basel III capital framework. Newly installed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman is taking a new approach to the thorny question of bank capital.

Like the current HUD secretary, Andrew Hughes holds close ties to former department head Ben Carson, actively supporting his past presidential ambitions.

The government measure of inflation for May ticked up modestly, adding to the signals that the Federal Reserve is unlikely to move on interest rates when it meets next month.

The Trump administration's plan to fire 90% of the staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has raised constitutional questions about whether courts can decide whether a president is taking "care that the Laws be faithfully executed."

Shelia Bair, who chaired the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. from 2006 to 2011, said that while post-crisis reforms may have overregulated banks, the current deregulatory swing could undermine important protections and lead to another banking crisis.

Cara Petersen, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's top enforcement official, said the Trump administration has "no intention to enforce the law in any meaningful way."

As the Trump Administration looks for savings in the bloated federal housing complex, the most obvious opportunity is to return defaulted assets to the private sector, writes the chairman of Whalen Global Advisors.

A forthcoming bill from Sens. Jim Banks, R-Ind., and Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., would allow the Federal Housing Finance Agency director to set limits on executive pay at the Federal Home Loan banks.

The exemption from the temporary restriction the government securitization guarantor introduced last month could help smaller issuers.

A new proposal from the Senate Banking Committee for the massive budget bill to eliminate this source of funding for the Consumer Bureau is dangerous, writes the president of the Center for Responsible Lending

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau pinpointed five rules that it wants the White House budget office to review. Details, however, are sparse.

In her first speech since being confirmed as the Federal Reserve's vice chair for supervision, Michelle Bowman outlined a set of ambitious pursuits that would overhaul bank regulation and examination.

A group of Democratic senators, including Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Schumer, asked the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency to pause any efforts to privatize mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

However, some aspects of the latest employment statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics point to gradual weakening in the economy.

A group of lawmakers questioned why the FTC and DOJ didn't step in to prevent Rocket Companies' acquisition of Redfin. They want answers by June 17.