Mortgage Financing

WASHINGTON - The foreclosure crisis likely will persist well into next year as high unemployment pushes more people out of homes, pulls down housing prices and raises concerns about the broader economic recovery.

NEW YORK - Signs of a subdued economic recovery sent investors out of stocks Thursday and in search of safer assets like the dollar.

Insurers stop selling new child-only health plans INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Several health insurers say they will stop selling new child-only individual insurance policies as they face a health care reform provision that will prevent them from excluding children with potentially costly pre-existing conditions.