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American households continued to pay off debt in the second quarter, according to a report released Tuesday, although delinquency rates remained high in certain U.S. states.

Iceland's parliament is set to vote on a plan to repay more than $5 billion that British and Dutch savers lost in an Icelandic bank's failure last fall.

Many of the country's citizens aren't happy about it. Stephen Beard reports.

Don't expect TARP-free banks to unleash a torrent of loans to cash-strapped consumers.

The Treasury Department has given ten banks the OK to pay back TARP funds. These banks did well on the stress tests.

But there are questions about whether the TARP did the banks any good and if the tests were stringent enough.

John Dimsdale reports.