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There have been so many market milestones making headlines lately that it’s getting hard to keep track of them all.
The Dow has leapt […]

Stuart Heathcote and his wife never intended to buy a house this year. Then the U.K. government offered an incentive that changed their minds: […]

Stephen Walters, the only economist surveyed by Bloomberg News to predict yesterday’s rate increase by Australia’s central bank, was convinced more than a month […]

When Kraft offered $16.7 billion for Cadbury over Labor Day weekend, the deal was immediately shunned by the British candy giant.
Still, it’s the […]

Five small regional banks were closed by regulators on Friday evening, pushing 2009’s tally so far to 89 institutions. Of the five failures, two […]

Question: I’m 58 and have $30,000 sitting in an online savings account earning around 2% annually. Is there some way I can get a […]

Banco Central do Brasil President Henrique Meirelles’ political ambitions are raising concern among some investors as he seeks to pull Latin America’s biggest economy […]

The Treasury Department is at risk of short-changing taxpayers by not collecting enough from banks trying to get out from under the government’s thumb, […]

The Manhattan district attorney indicted 13 suspects and a mortgage company on Wednesday for running a $100 million mortgage fraud, in which they allegedly […]

The federal government is likely to spend $835 billion this year fighting the crises in the financial system and the economy, according to a […]