The government's unprecedented move Friday to ban people from betting against financial stocks might be a salve for the market's turmoil, but it could carry serious unintended consequences. ...more

September 20, 2008

The financial crisis has turned the race between Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama into an audition for who could best handle a national economic emergency. ...more

September 19, 2008

WASHINGTON - Eager to show that he feels people's pain, President Bush scuttled a political fundraising trip Thursday to tell the country his administration is working feverishly to calm turmoil in the financial markets. ...more

September 18, 2008

The Federal Reserve forged an extraordinary $85 billion rescue Tuesday night of insurance giant American International Group Inc., offering a respite from two days of chaos in the American financial system. ...more

September 17, 2008

Following the crisis on Wall Street and criticism of his contention that the economy is fundamentally strong, John McCain injected a new economic populism into his campaign in a brief speech Tuesday in Tampa. ...more

September 17, 2008

With Wall Street engulfed in crisis, the Securities and Exchange Commission is planning measures to rein in aggressive forms of short-selling that were blamed in part for the demise of Lehman Brothers and which some fear could be turned against other vulnerable companies. ...more

September 16, 2008

The Bush administration, acting to avert the potential for major financial turmoil, announced Sunday that the federal government was taking control of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. ...more

September 8, 2008

The Bush administration, acting to avert the potential for major financial turmoil, says the federal government was taking control of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. ...more

September 7, 2008

Shells Seafood Restaurants Inc., a Tampa-based chain, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Tampa, according to documents filed Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. ...more

September 4, 2008

Shells Seafood Restaurants Inc., a Tampa-based chain, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Tampa today, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. ...more

September 3, 2008