Home affordability declined on a monthly basis across loan types and racial demographics, but improved from a year ago, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.

A federal judge harshly criticized the settlement of a civil suit between the Department of Justice and a Texas land developer.

The San Antonio-based bank reported annual declines in net charge-offs and nonaccrual loans, extending a run of solid credit-quality trends at Texas-based regional banks.

President and CEO Enrique Lores, who took the payment company's top job in March, is looking to turn the company around with fresh talent and a renewed focus on what he says are the company's fundamentals.

The card network, which reported earnings on Thursday, reports some early impacts on travel payments, and has set up a site to help customers with questions about changes in consumer and business spending habits.

Banks have publicly said they're on top of the risk presented by Anthropic's Claude Mythos, which can find and exploit software vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed. Experts aren't as sure.