WASHINGTON -- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is considering new rules on mortgage fees, including banning origination charges based on the size of the loan.

The agency, which said the new rules would make it easier for potential home ...

LOS ANGELES -- Wells Fargo & Co. has become so dominant in the mortgage business that major investors and federal regulators are worried that a financial hiccup at the giant bank could roil the already beleaguered real estate market.

Wells ...

PHILADELPHIA -- During the housing boom, a borrower's ability to exhale appeared to be the chief criterion for obtaining a mortgage. Six years of record foreclosures later, with millions of borrowers owing more than their properties are worth, the...

LOS ANGELES -- The crowd stood at the corner of San Pedro and Boyd streets, a bustling shopping area near L.A.'s Skid Row, waiting for stragglers to arrive before descending on the store.

But this mob wasn't an angry one. It had gathered on a ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Among the many renewable energy sources -- wind, solar, hydroelectric, biofuels -- there is one to which we all contribute that has not yet managed to attract the romantic advocates who have embraced other forms of green energy.

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LOS ANGELES -- A $7.6 billion federal program to help homeowners avert foreclosure set too few goals for the 18 participating states and didn't do enough to make sure the nation's biggest banks were on board, according to a government audit.

The ...