(Albany, NY) -- With state lawmakers out of Albany this weekend without an agreement to close New York's budget g...
LOS ANGELES -- Some University of California regents who approved a student fee increase are trapped inside a UCLA building a...
NEW YORK -- Signs of a subdued economic recovery have sent investors out of stocks and in search of safer assets like the dol...
ALBANY, N.Y. -- New York's unemployment rate inched to 9 percent in October from 8.9 in September.
State labor department ...
WASHINGTON -- The number of newly laid-off workers seeking unemployment insurance was unchanged last week, remaining above th...
NEW YORK -- The Associated Press laid off an undisclosed number of news employees Tuesday as part of the cooperative's yearlo...
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will travel to Pennsylvania and other states next month after hosting a White House foru...
Trenton, NJ -- New Jersey's budget problems are worse than expected. Governor-elect Chris Christie and memb...
WASHINGTON -- A weaker dollar may boost the nation's economy by increasing exports and narrowing the trade gap - but that won...
WASHINGTON -- A weaker dollar may boost the nation's economy by increasing exports and narrowing the trade gap - but that won...
NEW YORK -- Encouraging news from earnings reports is drawing investors back into the stock market one day after a big drop.
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Steven Moore of the Wall Street Journal takes a look at the future of the economy and the effect President Obama has and will...
Stock market volatility is back, a signal to some experts that the powerful rally that started in early March may be coming t...
(Undated) -- The unemployment rate may be much higher than the official ten-point-two-percent figure released Fri...
Just when it was beginning to look a little better, the economy relapsed Friday with a return to double-digit unemployment fo...
WASHINGTON -- Congress is sending the president legislation to expand a popular homebuyers tax credit and extend unemployment...
NEW YORK -- Stocks have ended mostly higher as rising commodity prices lifted energy, industrial and materials companies.
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WASHINGTON -- The Senate Democratic leader is indicating lawmakers may not complete health care legislation this year, missin...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama said Saturday that reports the economy is growing again and that more than 1 millio...
NEW YORK -- Stocks logged their best day in three months as investors rushed into the market on word the economy grew faster ...
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Gov. David Paterson and legislative leaders are expected to convene in a public leaders meeting to tackle New...
WASHINGTON -- The economy grew at a 3.5 percent pace in the third quarter, the best showing in two years, fueled by governmen...
Sorkin: This Is One of the Most Remarkable Times In Our Financial History
Last September 2008, Ben Bernanke and Hank Pauls...
WASHINGTON -- Sales of new homes dropped unexpectedly last month as the effects of a temporary tax credit for first-time owne...
WASHINGTON -- Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticket manufactured goods rose in September as the biggest jump in demand for ...
CHICAGO -- More than 80 percent of major companies reporting third-quarter results this month have beaten Wall Street e...
WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke prodded Congress Friday to enact legislation overhauling the nation'...
WASHINGTON -- The number of newly laid-off workers filing claims for jobless benefits rose more than expected last week, afte...
WASHINGTON -- The man who watches over the $700 billion in government money given to banks and other institutions to avert a ...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Even with an economic revival, many U.S. jobs lost during the recession may be gone forever and a weak empl...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Financial companies that were shored up by taxpayer money are now paying their employees bug bucks in comp...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- What is $1.42 trillion? It's more than the total national debt for the first 200 years of the Republic, mo...
WASHINGTON -- Output at the nation's factories, mines and utilities rises for the third straight month in September on higher...
New York, NY -- Stocks turned positive in late-afternoon trading thanks to Microsoft and energy shares. The marke...
Albany, NY -- Governor Paterson says more budget cuts are necessary to deal with New York's burgeoning budget gap...
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Gov. David Paterson is proposing a $5 billion plan to reduce New York's deepening deficits with across-the-...
WASHINGTON -- The number of newly laid-off workers filing claims for unemployment insurance has fallen to the lowest level si...
WASHINGTON -- There will be no cost of living increase for more than 50 million Social Security recipients next year, th...
New York, NY -- Stocks ended flat as investors worried about corporate earnings. Johnson & Johnson's th...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. trade deficit unexpectedly narrowed in August as exports posted a small gain, while imports fell ...
NEW YORK -- Stocks resumed their climb as investors got upbeat readings on two of the best gauges of the economy's health: co...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan predicted on Sunday that the jobless rate will pass 10 per...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As the unemployment rate climbs, President Barack Obama is trying to make the case that his health care ov...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says passage of his health care proposals would create new jobs by making small bus...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The economy sank at a pace of just 0.7 percent in the spring, a better-than-expected performance that prov...
NEW YORK (AP) -- A closely watched index of home prices shows year-over-year improvement for the sixth month in a row and pri...
BERLIN (AP) -- Germans voted Sunday on whether to give Chancellor Angela Merkel a second term at the helm of Europe's largest...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Big job losses and a spike in early retirement claims from laid-off seniors will force Social Security to ...
(New York, NY) -- Stocks fell today on disappointing reports of durable goods orders and housing. New order...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Home resales dipped last month after a four-month streak of gains, providing evidence that the housing mar...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nurturing a nascent recovery, Federal Reserve policymakers are sure to leave a key interest rate at a reco...
NEW YORK (AP) -- A private forecast of economic activity rose in August for the fifth straight month, the latest sign the rec...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York state's unemployment rate rose from 8.6 percent to 9 percent in August, the highest in 26 years,...
NEW YORK (AP) - Investors have waded deeper into stocks as a batch of economic reports provide mostly upbeat signals about ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Retail sales jumped in August by the largest amount in more than three years, spurred by widespread gains ...
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Morgan Stanley's incoming CEO will be facing a drastically different landscape on Wall Street from when John Mack took over i...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Businesses reduced inventories at the wholesale level for a record 11th consecutive month in July, althoug...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Analysts, lawmakers and the financial industry generally reacted positively to news that Ben Bernanke would...
(Miami, FL) -- Hip-hop producer Scott Storch is no longer the owner of a Miami mansion. According to TMZ.co...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Banks borrowed less over the past week from Federal Reserve emergency lending programs designed to combat t...
(New York, NY) -- Positive manufacturing data helped Wall Street believe the economy is beginning to recover.&nbs...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Federal Reserve has extended a program intended to spur lending to consumers and small businesses at l...
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - New data from the state judiciary shows New Jersey foreclosure filings were up by more than 30 percent in...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Productivity surged in the spring by the largest amount in almost six years while labor costs plunged at t...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Using better-than-expected jobs numbers to press his top domestic priority, President Barack Obama is argu...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Using better-than-expected jobs numbers to press his top domestic priority, President Barack Obama argued ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Finally, a lot fewer workers are hearing the dreaded words, "You're fired."
In the clearest sig...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Friday welcomed a dip in unemployment as evidence "the worst may be behind ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Employers throttled back on layoffs in July, cutting just 247,000 jobs, the fewest in a year, and the unem...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of newly-laid off workers seeking unemployment insurance fell last week, the government said Th...
As dealerships and car shoppers alike wait for the Senate to decide the fate of "cash for clunkers," one question r...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Consumers opened their wallets and pocketbooks a bit more in June, increasing their spending for the secon...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's treasury secretary on Sunday said he cannot rule out higher taxes to help tame an...
(Washington, DC) -- The man who once directed the Federal Reserve thinks the nation is "very close" to ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A top White House adviser is defending President Barack Obama's approach to reviving the economy and says ...
(New York, NY) -- New York's senior senator is calling for pumping more federal dollars to solve the problem of t...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are looking ahead to a health care showdown on the Hous...
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is sounding a bit more upbeat about the economy but says future economic prosp...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The economy sank at a pace of just 1 percent in the second quarter of the year, a new government report sh...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress on Thursday came to the rescue of three recession-hit programs, including aid for unemployment ben...
(Washington, DC) -- The White House is bracing for more bad economic news. In brief remarks, President Obam...
NEW YORK (AP) - Upbeat corporate earnings are giving stocks another burst of energy.
Stocks surged but ended off their highs...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- State budget officials say New York's economy is still sinking, with some of the wealthiest taxpayers mo...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government says the number of newly laid-off workers filing first-time claims for jobless benefits ros...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg is tapping a Morgan Stanley executive to be his new finance commissioner.
The previ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Treasury Secretary Timonthy Geithner says the United States and China are committed to building a more sta...
(New York, NY) -- The Dow ended the week above nine-thousand points after closing yesterday above the mark for th...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. housing market is finally on the mend after its most far-reaching collapse in 70 years. That could...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Lawmakers braced for a long debate Thursday as they consider a complex budget plan struck by Gov. A...
(New York, NY) -- Blue chip stocks rallied strongly on Wall Street today with the Dow Jones Industrials climbing ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke ran into more tough questions Wednesday on Capitol Hill about the ce...
TEANECK, N.J. (AP) -- A New Jersey woman's bake sale has helped her forestall foreclosure.
Angela Logan raised the $2,559.54...
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30 industrials 8889.4...
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration on Tuesday sent Congress legislation seeking to tighten government oversight of Wa...
NEW YORK (AP) -- CIT Group says it might have to file for bankruptcy protection if not enough bondholders participate in an u...
NEW YORK (AP) -- A private-sector forecast of U.S. economic activity rose more than expected in June, the third straight mont...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The board of CIT Group Inc., one of the nation's largest lenders to small and midsize businesses, approved...
HOLMDEL, N.J. (AP) - President Barack Obama says he wants a health care overhaul this year and that costs will cont...
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey's unemployment rate reached its highest level in 32 years in June.
The jobless rate increase...
A singing group of protesters gathered outside of Morgan Stanley Building in midtown Tuesday morning to “bite back&rdqu...
WASHINGTON (AP) - As he conceded that unemployment will keep growing, President Barack Obama on Tuesday said new jobs will re...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Higher energy prices rippled through the economy in June, helping to drive a bigger-than-expected gain in ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said Tuesday its second-quarter profit easily surpassed expectations as profit was ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government says retail sales advanced in June by the largest amount in five months, led by a surge in ...
(New York, NY) -- Healthy homeless people in New York City are racking up huge sums in expenses as they treat amb...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House's economic advisers say jobs providing health care and helping the environment are growing...
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut is going after federal stimulus money to help fund rail service between New Haven and Spri...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans lined up Sunday in opposition to a second economic stimulus package, a rare demonstration of u...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Saturday dismissed the idea the nation might need a second stimulus to jolt the ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- American International Group Inc. is consulting with the federal government about its plans to pay millions ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. trade deficit fell to the lowest level in more than nine years in May as exports posted a small g...
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(L'Aquila) -- President Obama says nations of the world are making some "important strides forward" in ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of newly laid-off workers filing initial claims for jobless benefits last week fell to lowest l...
6:10: Brian Shactman, CNBC Anchor and Reporter
Will discuss President Obama’s economic team saying that there is a g...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Consumer loan delinquencies edged up to another record high in the first quarter, according to data released...
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell is one of
five governors who voiced concerns a...
CHICAGO (AP) - Credit the recession for staycations and bringing us more game-night parties at home. But also give it a shout...
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HOUSTON (AP) - Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges he swindled investors out of $7 bil...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The economy tumbled at a 5.5 percent pace in the first quarter, but appears to be doing better now, even t...
WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) - Tens of thousands of low-income Connecticut people could be getting free cell phone service from a Fl...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - According to Farm Credit, it costs dairy farmers $17.58 to produce a hundredweight of milk. But the marke...
(Washington, DC) -- Public confidence that President Obama's 787-billion-dollar stimulus plan will jolt the econo...
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday urged financial institutions that specialize in communi...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Consumer prices rose less than expected in May, fresh evidence that the recession is keeping inflation in ...
Neil Weinberg of Forbes Magazine on "The John Gambling Show"
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new consumer protect...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration says it is committed to overhauling the country's financial rule book by giving t...
DETROIT (AP) - Business and government leaders are gathering in Detroit for what's being called the nation's first conf...
