Home prices post 18.1 percent annual drop in April

Widely watched index shows home prices down by 18.1 pct. in April, but trend is stabilizing

Newfound signs of stability in the housing market could still be threatened by rising foreclosures and slow efforts to stop them, according to two reports released Tuesday.

The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller index of 20 major cities showed the smallest monthly decline since June 2008. The index tumbled by 18 percent in April from the year before, but for the third month in a row it was not a record decline. Yearly losses in 13 metros improved compared to March...

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