LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Brazilian stocks rose Friday, buoyed by gains in housing issues, but the market still faced its fifth consecutive weekly decline.
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Federal prosecutors and lawyers for five former insurance executives accused of engineering a bogus reinsurance transaction to mask a drop in reserves at American International Group Inc. are in settlement talks, according to a joint court ...
Sales of newly built homes continued to pick up momentum, another sign that the long-beleaguered housing market is in recovery mode. New-home sales for April rose 3.3% from March and were up 9.9% from a year earlier to a seasonally adjusted ...
Realty Q&A is a weekly column in which Lew Sichelman, a nationally syndicated columnist who has been covering the housing market for more than 40 years, responds to readers’ questions on real estate.
MADRID—The head of Spain's Catalonia region Friday called for the central government to accelerate plans to share responsibility for regional debt because of increasing difficulties they face to finance themselves, while stressing his ...
Humans are quickly becoming an indoor species. In part, this is a byproduct of urbanization, as most people now live in big cities. Our increasing reliance on technology is also driving the trend, with a recent study concluding that American ...
As Memorial Day weekend nears, veterans and the military vote have become a more serious focus in the 2012 campaign. In the last few weeks, President Barack Obama has reached out to military voters on the Web and on TV with the aim of ...
Ever tried eating steel? It is pretty tough to swallow. But that won't stop Chinese exporters trying to force-feed it to you. China's steel industry has churned out more than two million metric tons a day so far this month. That is 749 ...
TORONTO (MarketWatch) — What happens if the euro zone unravels, with Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain all leaving at the same time as political gridlock drives the U.S. off a fiscal cliff? What if China were no longer willing to fund the ...
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stock gains evaporated Tuesday as investors looked to a gathering of European leaders the next day, with concern about Europe overriding cheer that came with upbeat housing data.
Charles Ward fell behind on his mortgage in September, just as his late wife began a losing battle with lung cancer and her medical costs soared.
Consumer confidence just jumped to the highest level since October 2007, and the stock market barely blinked. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan final reading on consumer sentiment in May rose to 79.3, above the 77.8 figure ...