European stock markets have been tumbling all week over fears of the damage a Greek exit from the euro zone could do to the single currency and even the European Union. Yet through it all, Germany's borrowing costs keep going down—so much ...
President Obama's standard gripe is that the economy has performed so poorly during his term because of the financial crisis he inherited from George W. Bush. But this week it is Mr. Obama who has bequeathed to his successors a landmark in ...
MADRID—Spain's government is prepared to inject €19 billion ($23.8 billion) in financial support requested Friday by troubled lender Bankia SA, the bank said Friday, in what would represent the largest bank bailout in the country's history.
General Motors Co. said Friday that it failed to disclose in its proxy a $600,000 contract with an ad agency partly owned by the wife of the auto maker's chief financial officer.
Being put on hold is no fun. But Vodafone Group has little choice when it comes to plans for the company's Indian operations. The Anglo-Dutch telecommunications giant is expected to list its Indian business at some point but said this week ...
More farmers than expected applied to put their land in a government program that pays the farmers not to plant crops and not all of the acres could be accommodated, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday.
ISTANBUL—Two suicide bombers detonated explosives inside a car near a police station in the central Turkish province of Kayseri on Friday, killing one police officer and wounding at least 17 people, marking the latest in series of militant ...
FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) — So much for the bond vigilantes riding in to punish France for electing an austerity-bashing Socialist to the presidency.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Treasury prices gained on Friday, retracing some of the prior session’s decline, though bonds are still down for the week.
There has never been a better time to refinance your mortgage. Rates are at record lows. The government is devising new programs to help homeowners. The economy and job market are improving, albeit slowly.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stocks languished between modest gains and losses Friday, with Wall Street largely fixated on Spain, where regional banks are struggling with finances and yields that reflect the government’s borrowing costs ...
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The U.S. dollar rose on Friday, remaining on pace to end a fourth straight week of gains that has taken the greenback to its highest level since 2010.
MADRID (MarketWatch) — Spanish government bonds tumbled Friday, sending yields higher, rattled by reports that one of Spain’s autonomous regions has asked for assistance from the government because it can’t get debt financing from the ...
Federal prosecutors and lawyers for five former insurance executives accused of engineering a bogus reinsurance transaction to mask a drop in reserves at American International Group Inc. are in settlement talks, according to a joint court ...
A recent announcement by the U.S. Preventative Health Service can rather simply be summed up: Most men eventually get prostate cancer, but most don't die from it; those who do are mostly over 75 years of age, so that ends their continuing ...