Stores, factories and businesses large and small showed workers the door last month, sending unemployment to its highest rate in four years and adding to the evidence an economic recovery remains far off. ...more

August 2, 2008

Jobless Claims Jump As Housing Market Gets Weaker WASHINGTON (AP) - Two cornerstones of the economy - jobs and housing - sank to new depths Thursday, with unemployment claims bolting higher and home prices recording one of their steepest drops on record. ...more

July 27, 2008

Citigroup has become the latest big bank to assuage Wall Street's worries about the financial sector, posting a $2.5 billion second-quarter loss that was smaller than the market expected. ...more

July 19, 2008

The proxy voting forms that many investors toss aside could one day become prized armaments in battles over how companies are run. ...more

June 8, 2008

World economic growth will slow significantly in 2008, but the United States, whose housing downturn is rattling global financial markets, will avoid recession, the International Monetary Fund forecast Tuesday. ...more

January 30, 2008

Wall Street plunged again Friday amid renewed fears that the financial sector's troubles with bad credit won't soon end and that some consumers are buckling under the weight of a slowing economy. The major indexes each lost more than 1 percent, including the Dow Jones industrials, which finished down nearly 250 points. ...more

January 12, 2008

Art is hot. Despite turmoil in the financial markets, there are no signs the art market is softening. ...more

December 26, 2007

Three generations of Clinton family women hit the trail vowing "change across the generations" as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York stepped up her pitch to female voters who could hold the key to Iowa's caucuses, which will launch the presidential nominating season in less than four weeks. ...more

December 9, 2007