I'm Nicole Lapin, the only financial expert you don't need a dictionary to understand.

It's time for some money rehab.

A random. All right, here's your weekly roundup of the biggest headlines on Wall Street and how

they affect your finances. Our first story is something of a sleeper unless it's directly impacting you in which case

it is probably all you can think about I am talking about the breach over at

Fidelity National Financial.

Pause take a breath I know what you're thinking. Let me be super

duper clear. Fidelity National Financial is completely unrelated to

Fidelity Investments, the brokerage company. However, Fidelity National Financial

is related to a whole bunch of other companies with fairly similar sounding names.

But again, none of these are related to Fidelity Investments, the brokerage company, so we're not talking about the company that has your 401k.

So just want to be really clear on that before I move on.

Last week, Fidelity National Financial Company, which is a title insurance company and a real estate transaction service provider for the mortgage and insurance industry

suffered a major cyber security incident and suspended operations.

They filed the paperwork with the SEC and put all of their real estate

transactions on hold. This has left homebuyers, sellers, and real estate agents in a

holding pattern while they wait for more information. Since mortgage underwriting

is often the longest part of the process, a slowdown

here means that things can actually go to a crawl. Fidelity National Financial or FNF owns many subsidiaries including Fidelity National Title, National Title of New York,

Fidelity National Title of California, Fidelity National Title of Hawaii, Chicago National Title,

the list goes on and on and on.

Because of all of the companies, they own, the parent company,

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