Regional results underscored that unevenness. The well-supplied West led all four regions with an 8.9% year-over-year affordability gain, followed by the South at 8.3% and the inventory-constrained Midwest at 6.2%. The Northeast was the exception, where home prices rose 3.9% against regional wage growth of just 3.2%, producing the smallest improvement nationally. For brokers qualifying…
Meghan Markle is officially a Daytime Emmy nominee. On Tuesday, the 2026 Daytime Emmy nominations were announced, and Netflix’s “With Love, Meghan” was nominated in the Outstanding Lifestyle Program category. The show focuses on Meghan, 44, sharing cooking and hosting tips alongside celebrity guests, from Mindy Kaling to chef Samin Nosrat. She celebrated the nomination…
According to a new report from Consumer Finance Monitor, on July 13, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) released interagency guidance to remind the financial institutions under their supervision of their ongoing safety and soundness responsibilities when providing credit…
Roughly Unchanged After Gradual Weakness Fri, Jul 17 2026, 4:35 PM Roughly Unchanged After Gradual Weakness Bonds ended the day roughly unchanged despite this morning’s stronger start. With the S&P falling back to the lows of the day, we can’t really blame asset allocation trading between stocks and bonds. It’s easier to…
Key insight: Small Business Bank in Kansas, with $73 million in assets, failed Friday, the fourth failure this year. Supporting data: The failure will cost the Deposit Insurance Fund roughly $5.7 million, about 8% of the firm’s total assets at the time of failure. Forward look: The fourth failure makes 2026 the worst year for…
Is it safe to eat salad yet? On Friday, California-based salad juggernaut Taylor Farms announced it is “voluntarily” removing all of the iceberg lettuce it sources from central Mexico for the US market. “No other Taylor Fresh Foods products across the country are impacted,” the company said. It’s unclear whether this means that all of…
Housing starts in the US surged in June after a sharp drop a month earlier, driven by a rebound in apartment construction. Processing Content New residential construction increased 19% last month to an annualized rate of 1.43 million, the highest since March, government data released Friday showed. That topped all estimates in a Bloomberg survey…
With demand for hotel rooms forecasted to pick up this year and next in the United States, hospitality point-of-sale specialist Mews is adding multicurrency processing for hotel operators in the United States and Canada. Already made available 14 months ago to European hotels, the multicurrency service enables international travelers to pay in their home currencies…
After a long delay, Nvidia (NVDA 1.97%) is finally selling chips to customers in China. *Stock prices used were the afternoon prices of July 15, 2026. The video was published on July 17, 2026. Parkev Tatevosian, CFA has positions in Nvidia. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Nvidia. The Motley Fool has a…
Former BBC Look North presenter Christa Ackroyd has begun producing property video content for a Yorkshire estate agency, more than a decade after leaving broadcasting. Ackroyd, 69, is creating social media property tours for Hunters in Otley, West Yorkshire, on a freelance basis. She has completed two videos for the agency and indicated she hopes…