Nancy Marshall-Genzer

So who's absorbing these costs?

Suppliers, wholesalers, retailers?

Larry Adam is Chief Investment Officer at Raymond James.

Thanks for joining us.

The annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, is in its second day today.

It's a meeting of some of the world's most powerful people, one that often attracts protests.

Among the biggest names, the heads of Microsoft and Nvidia, the Chancellor of Germany, and after a six-year in-person absence,

President Trump is returning to the forum, where he plans to use a key address tomorrow to lay out his plans for making housing more affordable.

For more on what we can expect, my colleague David Boncaccio turned to Henry Kerr, economics editor and deputy business affairs editor for The Economist magazine.

He's in Davos.

Our producers are Emma Condon, Tamar Fagan, Ashley Rodriguez, Ariana Rosas, and Erica Soderstrom.

Our senior producer is Alex Schroeder.

Our supervising senior producer is Meredith Gerritsen-Morby.

In Washington, I'm Nancy Marshall-Genzer with the Marketplace Morning Report from APM American Public Media.

Maybe some good news for homebuyers?

From Marketplace, I'm Nancy Marshall-Genzer in for David Boncaccio.

Will 2026 be the year that homes finally become more affordable?

Tomorrow, we get pending home sales for December.

That'll tell us how many homes went under contract.

And Zillow recently released a report with some potentially good news for prospective buyers.