Foreclosures are in a seasonal slowdown, but evidence suggests a new surge of foreclosures will arrive in 2012.

A summary of the one-liners delivered by Republican candidates in Sioux City, Iowa Thursday night.

Zynga IPO is priced at $10 a share, making the Internet social gaming company worth $7 billion. The Zynga IPO is scheduled for Friday.

AP - Congressional negotiators reached agreement Thursday on a compromise spending bill to avert a weekend federal shutdown. They also worked toward a deal renewing the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits for another year but prepared a shorter version as a fallback.

AP - Republican presidential front-runner Newt Gingrich clashed sharply with one rival, took pains to compliment another and said it was laughable for any of them to challenge his conservative credentials Thursday night in the last campaign debate before the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses kick off the 2012 primary season.

AP - Cancer weakened, but did not soften Christopher Hitchens. He did not repent or forgive or ask for pity. As if granted diplomatic immunity, his mind's eye looked plainly upon the attack and counterattack of disease and treatments that robbed him of his hair, his stamina, his speaking voice and eventually his life.