While mortgage rates have trended upward over the past three months, it’s uncertain how much further they can go up without making homes look unaffordable. So reports MarketWatch.

The Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged at its December meeting and indicated no plans to cut them further in the year ahead. So reports CBS News.

Notable regulatory compliance and risk challenges remain high in a number of key areas for U.S. banks and credit unions, according to results of Wolters Kluwer’s 2019 Regulatory & Risk Management Indicator survey.