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Mortgage lenders are trying new strategies to help bail out borrowers, as the level of delinquencies rises to a five-year high. More lenders are allowing short sales — in which a homeowner sells a property for less than what is owed and the debt’s balance is forgiven — while other are letting consumers with adjustable-rate mortgages refinance at no extra cost. Plus, see a chart of metro areas with the biggest rises in loan delinquencies.

This week's survey of news from across the Web looks at U.S. metro areas where housing values are expected to fall, cities where the gap between the most expensive and least expensive houses loom large, why sales are at a record low in Massachusetts and South Florida's rosy outlook despite sagging sales.

Ever since seashells and trinkets evolved into cold, hard cash, the instruments of finance have been changing.

Mad Money’s Jim Cramer is promoting Genentech once more as a ‘best of breed’ stock…

German blue chip stocks have outperformed the global stock market and major U.S. indexes since the market's bottom in February 2003. Going into...

Investors stepped up their drainage of assets from U.S. stock funds in December as interest rates started backing up.

A broad palette of economic and company-specific news drove an early jump and late-day advances, pushing technology and smaller issues to a third...

NYSE stocks traded mostly higher Tuesday. The Dow finished up 0.3% and the S&P 500 0.6%. Small-cap stocks again fared best, as the S&P 600...