5 Tips to Celebrating Your First Holidays After a Divorce – The first holiday season after a divorce or separation can place tremendous emotional strain on the best of us. Now that you and your ex have parted ways, the holiday parties and family gatherings you have been celebrating for years as a couple suddenly seem daunting and complicated. Who gets to go to which parties? How do you “share custody” of friendships? What do you say when someone asks why your better half is no longer at your side? It’s enough to make an already emotionally fraught season barely tolerable.

Wells Fargo to pay $591 million to Fannie Mae in mortgage settlement – Wells Fargo & Co. said Monday it has agreed to pay $591 million to Fannie Mae to settle disputes over soured mortgages the bank sold to the seized housing finance giant during the subprime housing boom.

RealtyTrac: Foreclosures still bringing down value of residential properties – Foreclosures hurt more than just those families who’ve lost their homes. They drag down the value of housing in entire neighborhoods.