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The Senate allowed the nomination of a permanent director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to lapse, giving acting Director Russell Vought more time to lead the agency on a temporary basis.

Sponsored by American Water, the deal funds service contracts on HVAC, plumbing and external water lines.

Lenders shouldn't expect the latest jobs numbers to yield major monetary policy moves after the unemployment rate came in mostly flat last month, experts say.

There will still be economic and credit cycles, but the US economy since the financial crisis means toppling it is a lot harder to do than it had been in the past.

The deal comes to market as President Trump suggested barring institutional buyers from snatching up single-family homes, the type of properties secure the bulk of SEMT 2026-INV1.

ODF II will focus on originating senior and junior commercial rea estate debt investments across major U.S. markets, focused on multifamily properties.

Across-the-board decreases across all loan types drove the Mortgage Bankers Association's full credit availability index to its lowest in three months.

Analysts at RBC Capital Markets said the plan is bad news for Invitation Homes and American Homes 4 Rent, but the companies "are long past the time of significant growth in home count

While Westlake's customer accounts usually have credit bureau scores ranging from 500 to 700, the WLAKE 2026-1 collateral pool's non-zero weighted average credit bureau score was 620.

Largely strong credit qualities were offset because by loans on single-family homes in the pool dropping by 0.5%, and that the percentage of loans that received due diligence decreased by 0.4%.