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The Bush administration is expected to take stakes in the nation's top financial institutions as part of a wide-ranging effort to restore confidence to the battered banking system, following simila...

Stocks endured the widest intraday swing on record, in a fitting end to one of the most turbulent weeks in financial history.

The stock market's collapse accelerated Thursday as bank lending remained stubbornly clogged and investors remained unwilling to hold anything except cash and government debt, no matter how tiny th...

With unprecedented global coordination, six central banks including the Fed and ECB cut interest rates sharply Wednesday in an emergency move designed to offset the economic damage from a deepening...

Frightened investors took no comfort in regulators' continued efforts to stanch the credit crisis and sent stocks to more steep losses, led by the financial sector.

Deepening fear that the global economy is ailing beyond the capacity of policy makers to cure it sent stocks into a downward spiral Monday.

Bush signed the biggest government intervention in the financial markets since the Great Depression after House lawmakers wary of growing signs of the nation's economic distress voted Friday in fav...

Recession fears gripped the stock market Thursday following reports of plunging factory orders and a seven-year high in jobless claims.

U.S. business was getting a helping hand Wednesday, as the Senate appeared set to pass a bailout bill and Warren Buffett ploughed money into another corporate giant.

With Congress adjourned for the Jewish New Year, proponents of a bailout bill were trying to turn over a new leaf after Monday's botched attempt to get a majority of lawmakers on board.