Housing stocks have fallen again — and this time the department store stocks have marched down with them. Since April, when investors voiced optimism that the housing slide had been contained, shares of the country's biggest department store...

Brothers Melvin and Herbert Simon stepped down Thursday as co-chairs of Simon Property Group, ending their more than four-decade-long active tenure at the Indianapolis mall development company they founded. Although the two are into their golden...

At this juncture, economists say the troubles in the mortgage market could, all told, cost financial firms and investors up to $400 billion. That is far more than the roughly $240 billion cost, adjusted for inflation, of the savings and loan...

I don't know why anyone would want to teach a six- year old about commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS), but this is how I would do it. This is INCREDIBLY simplified. For this example, our six year old will be named Lucy. First, let's go...