Financial & Economic Blog

U.S. stocks were poised to start September with gains Wednesday as investors aimed to put last month's dour performance behind them.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_markets/~4/7VM90TLqwhE" height="1" width="1"/

U.S. stocks were poised to start September with a bang Wednesday as investors aimed to put last month's dour performance behind them.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/qQsuTsUUOdE" height="1" width="1"/

If Republican leaders were serious -- and gutsy -- about using the Gulf oil spill as an opportunity to put the nation on a sane energy course, they'd pull out a little-noticed bill sponsored by Arizona's Jeff Flake and South Carolina's Bob Inglis and plop it atop their 2010 campaign book.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/2FdYGVipQiw" height="1" width="1"/

Once upon a time another Naval Academy graduate, Ross Perot, tried to right troubled General Motors Corp. as an activist director. Now it's the turn of Dan Akerson, class of 1970 and a telecoms executive-turned-private equity specialist.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/5-WBIDbPSn4" height="1" width="1"/

Question: Looking into the future of the American economy, I see tons of debt, the yoke of increasing social spending, pork-fed bureaucratic waste, the exporting of jobs and the importing of poverty. While this may paint a negative picture, I feel it's reality. We all want to be patriotic, but aren't there more fiscally responsible places to invest in that may offer a better landscape? --Dave, Bethlehem, Penn.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/g324_wAcf9o" height="1" width="1"/

A hot new smartphone can be Incredible, Vibrant, Epic or just "eh," but no matter how it stacks up, it's a safe bet that it will start selling at $199.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/gGMdhRYBW38" height="1" width="1"/

Stocks were little changed at the end of a choppy session Tuesday, closing out a lackluster August for the market, as investors weighed meeting minutes from the Federal Reserve against upbeat economic reports.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_markets/~4/5vXo-zH4cb0" height="1" width="1"/

Stocks were little changed at the end of a choppy session Tuesday, closing out a lackluster August for the market as investors weighed meeting minutes from the Federal Reserve against upbeat economic reports.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/LD-GF9s_HI0" height="1" width="1"/

The Federal Reserve is the last line of defense against a weakening economy, but there has been sharp disagreement among members over what action the central bank should take.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/1TxPNyiesBw" height="1" width="1"/

Shares of luxury retailer Saks surged Tuesday after a British newspaper said the company could soon get a buyout offer of $1.7 billion.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_markets/~4/b4bfYHhI58c" height="1" width="1"/