From coast to coast, states are cutting funding for schools, public safety and the poor as they struggle with fallout left by politicians who made pay-and-pension promises that taxpayers couldn’t...
American International Group Inc.’s rescue has come to an end with the U.S. raising $7...
Job openings in the U.S. climbed in October to a four-month high, indicating the labor market is on the mend.
Lawmakers return to Washington today amid a potential thaw in the U.S...
Genworth Financial Inc., the insurer whose stock plunged more than 80 percent since the end of 2006, named Thomas J...
Eight former directors overseeing mutual funds for Morgan Keegan & Co. were accused by U.S...
The founder of Los Angeles-based Muddy Waters, who has been vocal about accounting problems at U.S.-listed Chinese companies, is switching his focus elsewhere.
New technologies, dwindling resources and explosive population growth in the next 18 years will alter the global balance of power and trigger radical economic and political changes.
The success of American drillers in coaxing fossil fuels from shale rock has the potential to boost production so much that it may deny OPEC the power to set global oil and gasoline prices, an...
The image of a "fiscal cliff," coined by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, actually misstates the economic reality of a failed budget compromise, experts say.