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Progress Energy is looking to raise rates by 31 percent in Florida to deal with rising fuel prices, environmental improvements and planning for additional carbon-free […]

Hope Now has helped more than 2 million at-risk borrowers stay in their homes during the past 13 months, according to numbers released by […]

One year into the financial crisis, central bankers and scholars at the Federal Reserve's annual retreat this weekend couldn't agree on how to prevent […]

Gold, down 21 percent from a record $1,033.90 an ounce in March, may be headed down after open interest in New York futures contracts […]

Demand for rental homes in the U.K. climbed in the second quarter at the fastest pace in at least a decade as a slump […]

New Hampshire securities regulators on Thursday accused banking giant UBS of defrauding the state’s leading issuer of student loans.
In a civil complaint, the Bureau […]

Prime mortgages are starting to default at disturbingly high rates - a development that threatens to slow any potential housing recovery.
The delinquency rate for […]

Almost one-third of U.S. homeowners who bought in the last five years now owe more on their mortgages than their properties are worth, according […]

A year after central banks started to pump trillions of dollars into the financial system to end a seizure in credit markets caused by […]

In Spain, unemployment is rising, the housing industry has collapsed and the finance minister says the near future may include “zero growth.''
It could […]