HUD showcase spotlights Cavco chassis-free manufactured home

Actress Aubrey Plaza has trimmed the price of her Spanish-style California compound by nearly a half-million dollars—less than two months after she relisted the property at a drastically reduced ask. Plaza, 41, initially put her picturesque Los Feliz dwelling on the market for $6.5 million in September, eight months after her husband, film director Jeff Baena, died by suicide…

By Nojoud Al Mallees (Bloomberg) — Canada’s trade surplus narrowed sharply in July as declines in gold and energy dropped exports to the U.S. to their lowest proportion since 1997, outside the COVID-19 pandemic. Canadian exports to the U.S. decreased by 6.6% during the month, which was the steepest percentage decline since April 2025, Statistics…

We’d be the first to remind you that mortgage rates are primarily determined by trading levels in the bond market–specifically those for mortgage-backed securities (MBS). That said, there are days where rates don’t do exactly what MBS suggest. Today was one of them. According to the bond market, mortgage rates should have been much higher…

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We’ve been saying for a while that the longer end of the bond market really wants to see the Fed get serious about fighting inflation. This is why yields spiked on July 29th when the Fed held rates steady and Warsh said he’d let the bond market do the heavy lifting. Now today, we have…

After spiking to a near-record high in May, financial advisors’ confidence in the overall economy and the equity markets fell last month, as advisors reported their most pessimistic view to date of the economy’s long-term prospects. Overall, advisors’ feelings about the health of the economy fell 12% to an index reading of 106, while their…