Jan 31 Watch 11:43 How the Housing Market Could Shape the 2012 Election A new Standard & Poor's Case-Shiller Home Price Index showed U.S. home prices fell for a third straight month in two Florida cities, Miami and Tampa. Jeffrey Brown discusses the housing market's role this election season with The Wall Street… Continue watching
Aug 30 Why U.S. Housing Prices Aren’t Falling Off a Cliff Click on the cities above to see how housing prices have changed from June, 2003 to June, 2011 according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Housing Index. Data are in Tuesday morning from what may be the one reliable product coming… Continue reading
Apr 13 Watch Bank Chiefs Take Heat on Capitol Hill Over Foreclosure Crisis With more than three million homeowners facing foreclosure this year, banking executives testified before a House committee about why relief isn't reaching individuals in need. Ray Suarez reports. Continue watching
Dec 30 Consumer Confidence Hits Record Low By Admin, PBS News Hour More gloomy news emerged on the U.S. economic front Tuesday as consumer confidence fell to a record low in December and new data showed home prices dropped by the sharpest annual rate on record in October. Continue reading
Dec 25 Watch Foreclosure Crisis Brings Challenges, Opportunities to Stockton, Calif. The economic downturn in Stockton, Calif., one of the first communities in the country to experience the foreclosure crisis, is bringing challenges and opportunities there. Spencer Michels reports from the central California city. Continue watching
Mar 25 Watch Housing Crisis Draws Attention from Candidates Presumptie GOP nominee Sen. John McCain warned Tuesday against hasty government involvement in the U.S. mortgage crisis, while both Democratic candidates have called for increased regulation of lenders. An analysts considers the state of the housing market. Continue watching
Mar 25 Watch Foreclosure Rates Reflect Human Cost of Mortgage Meltdown The city of Baltimore has lately seen skyrocketing foreclosure rates and slumping home prices. The housing shake-up led the city to sue its largest lender -- Wells Fargo -- over allegations that it gave black homebuyers higher loan rates than… Continue watching
Mar 14 Watch FEMA Works to Move Evacuees Out of Trailer Homes In the second in a series of reports on Gulf Coast housing problems, Betty Ann Bowser examines FEMA's plans to find more permanent housing for hurricane evacuees who have spent months living in trailers. Continue watching
Jan 30 Watch Fed Cuts Key Interest Rate Again in Bid to Avert Economic Anxieties The Federal Reserve lowered its benchmark interest rate by half a point Wednesday -- the second rate reduction in eight days in a bid to help ease pressure on jittery financial markets. Wall Street Journal economics editor David Wessel examines… Continue watching
Jan 21 Watch Bernanke Put to Test as U.S. Economy Struggles Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has called for government action to revive the slowing U.S. economy, in a key test of his tenure as the head of the central bank. Two business reporters consider how Bernanke is responding to the… Continue watching