New numbers are out today from the Hope Now Alliance. You may remember last fall, when Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced this new effort, bringing together mortgage servicers, counselors and investors to help borrowers in trouble.   Read More

The Mad Money host puts an expiration date on this misery and offers 10 reasons why he’s sure the end is near.   Read More

Medal Round - Only One Day to Go: With only one day left in the competition, the USA's S&P 500 finished the day up .25%, the only competing index to gain for the day.  It'll take a big rally in Australia to catch the S&P, but who will take home the silver and bronze?   Read More

The losses stem mostly from inventory impairments and land write-offs. In English, that means the value of their properties are falling and they’re having to walk away from land that they can’t use because nobody is going to buy the house they would put on it.    Read More

It's time for the Fast Money market midterm. Our topic is the housing market. Hope you studied because this one could be ugly!   Read More

How about a silver lining in the housing crisis? According to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies’ “State of the Nation’s Housing 2008,” things are bad now, but social trends will save the day. Here's why...   Read More

CFO Bill Wheat says they want to sell $400 million worth of land, the bulk of it in Florida, California, Arizona and New Mexico. That would get them to a three year supply.    Read More

The Dow suffered a triple digit loss on Wednesday after a bigger-than-expected drop in crude inventories sent investors scrambling. What's the "Word on the Street?"   Read More

The trouble is that of all those “workouts” 106,000 were repayment plans, while approximately 77,000 were loan modifications. Critics argue that repayment plans don’t always get borrowers out of the total soup, especially if their adjustable-rate loans haven’t even reset yet.   Read More

When Fannie Mae has a day like Tuesday but still goes up anyway, what's a bear to do?   Read More