mortgage debt

A smaller percentage of mortgage holders were delinquent on their payments in the third quarter than in the second quarter, although the percentage of delinquencies remains up from the same period last year.

JPMorgan Chase kicks off earnings season for the financial sector Thursday, and investors will be keen to see whether a pick-up in mergers and acquisitions has offset an industry-wide drop-off in trading activity.

This is part of our series on strategies you can adopt to free yourself from burdensome debt. What should you do if you can't pay the mortgage? You're not alone. Right now that's happening to more than a million people. People get in trouble financially for many different reasons. Your interest...