CES is about companies, both large and small, showing their wares to
vendors and press/analysts. It’s also about getting a sense of the
trends, sharing ideas, and aligning your digital compass for the months
and years ahead. CBS News Science and Technology correspondent Daniel
Sieberg shares some retrospective on the 2009 event in Las Vegas.

The recession gets the credit for lower oil prices - and for more
Americans falling behind on their loan payments. A new report says
that, in the third quarter of last year, nearly 3 percent of loans were
at least 30 days late - the most since they started keeping track 28
years ago. CBS News business correspondent Anthony [...]

One of the housing industry’s benchmark indexes shows home prices
dropped by 18 percent in October, the sharpest annual rate drop on
record, reports CBS News correspondent Kelly Wallace.

California led the nation in foreclosures last month, and scam artists seem to be coming out of the woodwork to prey on desperate homeowners. CBS News reports on one California woman who is is about to lose that home after taking out a series of high interest loans that have left her hopelessly in debt.