Nomura Securities International has agreed to pay back $25 million to clients to settle SEC allegations that the Nomura Holdings unit failed to supervise former traders who gave phony prices for mortgage bond securities. So reports Bloomberg.

After three weeks of treading water, U.S. long-term mortgage rates rose in the past week, according to Freddie Mac. So reports the Associated Press.

CoreLogic, a global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, released a special report evaluating “The Role of Housing in the Longest Economic Expansion.”