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The shock of being laid off barely had time to set in before Jim Wessel began looking for another job.
Gold futures climbed to a new high Thursday, giving another nudge to the gold rush on Main Street as some people scramble to turn in their old jewelry for cash.
With the number of bank closings above 100 this year for the first time since 1992, the head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says she's frustrated at perceptions that U.S. taxpayers are on the hook for the costs of those failures.
More than 80 percent of major companies reporting third-quarter results this month have beaten Wall Street expectations. So is business that good? No. Are companies gaming the system? Yes.
Gold's image may be changing as its price settles in above $1,000 an ounce and continues to set records.
For all the doom and gloom about the housing market, it still generally pays to own a home.
The stock market bounced back, just as it has for nearly three decades. It just doesn't feel that way.
It's popular around the world. You probably paid it on your last European vacation. But how many Americans understand or even know about the value-added tax?
Surging demand from the government's "cash for clunkers" program has helped lift Ford Motor Co. to its first monthly increase in two years, the company's top sales analyst says.
Over the river and through the recession to grandmother's house they go. The lingering recession is forcing cash-strapped parents to cancel camp for the kids. Instead, they're being packed off to their grandparents'.
The corporate owner of the Chicago Cubs is considering having the baseball team file for bankruptcy protection as a legal step to hasten its long-awaited sale, according to two people with knowledge of the process.
Americans are cutting back their spending but not abandoning favorite summertime pursuits despite the extra expense, a new survey released Wednesday indicates.
American consumers have fallen victim to one financial scandal after another in the past decade, from accounting fraud at Enron to illegal late trading by mutual funds to the subprime mortgage meltdown.
The stock market's nosedive Monday abruptly ended the Dow's brief foray into positive territory for 2009, leaving stock-watchers to ponder whether an unexpectedly strong spring rally will survive into summer.
The final day of business at Jim Samaras' second-generation Chrysler dealership brought a last bittersweet hint of the good old days of American car sales.
The new credit card law is receiving widespread kudos as a victory for cardholders over the lenders that impose "gotcha" fees and penalties with scant justification and little notice.
Less pay, fewer benefits, lower prestige — and greater job satisfaction.
It sounds like a football play or a wardrobe malfunction. But when General Motors Corp. said it may execute a "reverse split," what that really signaled was a new level of desperation for the troubled automaker.
Boeing Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Jim McNerney assured shareholders Monday that the company is in strong shape to ride out the "once-in-a-lifetime" downturn that has walloped its profits, jetliner orders and stock price.
Retirees reeling from the impact of the stock market's ruinous slide can take some solace from recent tax-law changes to help minimize their losses.
The dizzying slide of some of Wall Street's most ironclad stocks has called the entire concept of blue-chips into question.
Americans are lacking in basic knowledge about insurance that might help their finances during the recession, according to a new survey.
Some Americans are learning a jarring lesson about unemployment as they prepare their tax returns.
HSBC PLC, Europe's biggest bank, said Monday it will no longer write new consumer loans in the United States and will shut down its U.S. lending unit over the next five years due to the subprime mortgage market's collapse. The decision will cost 6,100 U.S. jobs.
The formula for a financially successful retirement used to be straightforward: Work for decades for one employer and then live happily ever after on the pension, Social Security and whatever personal savings you were able to amass.
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