Mortgage rates have edged higher but remain near historic lows, driving a surge in refinancing activity. So reports CNBC.

Two former employees of a California mortgage and real estate company have received federal prison sentences for a mortgage scam going back 15 years. So reports the local Vacaville Reporter.

In the third quarter of 2019, the United States reached its longest economic expansion in history, which caused some people to wonder whether we were overdue for a correction. Additionally, global uncertainty resulted in a flight to safety of U.S. Treasury bonds, prompting the dreaded inversion of the yield curve.