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Wire Fraud Alert

CAUTION: IMPORTANT WIRE FRAUD ALERT FOR HOME BUYERS

Realtors®, Real Estate Brokers, Buyers and Sellers are targets for wire fraud and many have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars because they simply relied on the wire instructions received via email.

A hacker will break into a licensee’s email account to obtain information about upcoming real estate transactions. After monitoring the account to determine the likely timing of a close, the hacker will send an email to the buyer, posing either as the escrow agent or as the licensee. The fraudulent email will contain new wiring instructions or routing information, and will request that the Buyer send funds accordingly.


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am EDT Topline Inflation was hotter than economists anticipated last month and remains well above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target, according to government data released Friday morning, as the case...

The Fed’s preferred inflation gauge just moved in the wrong direction
CNN  —  Inflation remained stubbornly high last month. The Personal Consumption Expenditures price index accelerated to 2.7% for the year ended in...

Stagflation fears just hit Wall Street. Now for the next crucial report on prices
...underlying growth were strong in Thursday’s report. Read more here. US pending home sales jumped in March, beating expectations by a mile Home sales based on contract signings unexpectedly...

Small Businesses, Which Employee More Than 60 Million U.S. Workers, Are Losing Confidence
am EDT Small businesses in the United States are facing a perfect storm of high inflation, rising costs, labor shortages and reduced consumer demand, all of which are creating significant challenges...

GDP Growth Slows But Doesn’t Shrink
The advance estimate of GDP for the first quarter was an annual rate of 1.4%. That there would be a drop from the 3.4% rate in the fourth quarter...

U.S. Outlook Remains Bright Despite Weak Q1 GDP, Says BMO’s Yung-Yu Ma
U.S. first-quarter gross domestic product growth was only 1.6%, far weaker than the 2.6% growth that investors had been expecting, and inflation as measured...

Scottish Leader Ditches Green Party Alliance, But It Won’t Help The Economy
pm EDT After years of questionable economic policies the leader of the Scottish government has made a bold move. But it likely won’t be enough to help the country prosper. Scotland’s First Minister...

US pending home sales jumped in March, beating expectations by a mile
Washington CNN  —  Home sales based on contract signings jumped in March despite elevated mortgage rates that month. Pending home sales — a forward-looking indicator based on contract signings...