TAMPA -- Saxon Mortgage is laying off 140 workers in the Tampa Bay area, according to documents the company filed today under the state's Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. ...more

February 25, 2008

For more than two hours Tuesday, county commissioners talked about how to pave and maintain Pasco County roads for less money. ...more

February 6, 2008

Whether or not we slip into a recession, you ought to be prepared for the worst. That means understanding what's happening in the economy, your industry and the job marketplace that serves it. Equally important, you ought to take special measures to hold onto your job, and at the same time create a fallback position should you be laid off. ...more

January 27, 2008

In what appears to be the largest trading fraud ever carried out by a single person, a young trader at French bank Societe Generale is accused of making unauthorized bets on stock markets that cost the bank nearly $7.2 billion but may not have netted him a cent. ...more

January 25, 2008

Merrill Lynch & Co. on Thursday recorded its biggest quarterly loss since being founded 94 years ago after the world's largest brokerage took almost $15 billion worth of write-downs from bad subprime mortgage bets. ...more

January 18, 2008

Lennar Corp.'s November sale of 11,000 properties in eight states set a price that may mark the bottom for the U.S. housing market: 40 cents on the dollar. ...more

January 11, 2008

Tampa will benefit from a $5.25 billion project to double the Panama Canal's capacity by 2014 and expand container cargo shipping for many U.S. seaports, industry officials agree. ...more

January 11, 2008

Over the years, we have grown accustomed to government bailouts of financial companies. The odd thing about the current credit crunch, however, is that it isn't the U.S. government that is doing the bailing. ...more

January 1, 2008

You would expect a year marking the 10th anniversary of the Asian crisis to be hectic, and 2007 didn't disappoint. Coup attempts, subprime fallout, terrorist attacks, scandals, volatile stocks, elections, you name it. ...more

December 27, 2007

This might have been one of Wall Street's most dismal years in a decade, but that hasn't stopped bonus checks from rising an average of 14 percent. ...more

December 22, 2007