Morning Brief — Morning Brief for Friday, September 11, 2026

Today's brief leads with August consumer inflation rising faster than yesterday's wholesale relief suggested, and what that does to the Fed, households, mortgage desks, and markets. Columbus gets a local-control story as Ohio's higher referendum threshold changes the math for development fights. Home lending turns to Fannie Mae's immediate VantageScore 4.0 availability, with workflow consequences for credit ordering, pricing, delivery data, and manual underwriting. In AI, Truist's call-summary r