Morning Scan: Mortgage Lending Standards Questioned; Citi's Jap...

Wall Street Journal

Federal officials are considering how to instruct lenders to ease up on tight lending standards for mortgages. On the one hand, they don't want to create another housing bubble. But on the other hand, mortgage lending is so slow because lenders have adopted standards that are even tighter than what Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac demand. Underlying all of this are paltry-to-nonexistent wage growth, high levels of student debt and little savings for...