TORONTO - Chinese President Hu Jintao fired back Sunday at critics of his currency policy by warning that wildly fluctuating currency exchange rates can threaten financial markets.

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) (C) talks with a group including Ranking Member Spencer Bachus (R-AL) (L) during a recess from a committee conference on Wall Street reform to hammer out sweeping changes in financial ...

As the Atlantic's first tropical storm fizzled to a depression and posed little threat to oil spill recovery efforts in the Gulf of Mexico, Florida Gov.

by AP Do the lowest mortgage rates since the mid-1950s mean it's a good time to refinance your home loan? That depends mainly on what rate you have now - and whether you're planning to move anytime soon.

June 27 (Bloomberg) -- Boeing Co. machinists at a St. Louis fighter-jet plant won't strike tomorrow after voting today to accept a proposed contract.

John Dickinson rarely feels guilty when business is good, but lately his good fortune has come as a loss to someone else. The owner of Scuba Works in Jupiter bets half of his clients are coming from Florida's west coast or the Panhandle, ...

Boeing's new 787, the first airliner built largely from carbon fiber infused with epoxy resin, won't behave like a traditional metal airplane in a crash landing.

(Updates with pledges from emerging markets in fourth paragraph. See {GMEET } for more on the G-8 and G-20 summits.) By Sandrine Rastello and Tony Czuczka June 27 (Bloomberg) -- Group of 20 leaders are poised to endorse targets to tackle deficits, ...

CARACAS June 26 (Reuters) - Venezuela is studying offers to restart drilling at an offshore natural gas well in the Caribbean Sea after an exploration platform sank there last month, the country's state-run oil company PDVSA said on Saturday, ...

June 24 (Bloomberg) -- Mortgage securities with US-backed guarantees are trading at record high prices on speculation homeowner refinancing will fail to accelerate and as supply of the bonds remains limited.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Foul smells from some Kellogg Co breakfast cereals prompted the world's largest cereal maker to voluntarily pull millions of packages from store shelves around the United States.

After government tests show the hybrid could leak fuel in a rear-end collision, Toyota stops all sales and recalls 17000 sedans, including 4000 at dealerships.

By AP WASHINGTON (AP) - The government lowered its estimate of how much the economy grew in the first quarter of 2010, noting that consumers spent less than it previously thought.

City Hall was literally abuzz most of the week with talk of dozens of new Wal-Mart stores across Chicago, with demonstrators blowing World Cup-style vuvuzela horns to express their desire for jobs.

China has indicated that it will allow its currency to appreciate - following months of pressure from the US. Some refer to the currency as the yuan, others call it the renminbi.

By TING-I TSAI TAIPEI—A senior Taiwan official pledged to press ahead with talks on deepening trade and investment links with China, brushing aside demonstrations by tens of thousands of opposition supporters demanding a referendum on an issue that ...

The Savannah Bank will assume all of the deposits of First National Bank. The four branches of First National Bank will reopen on Monday as branches of The Savannah Bank.

By Cheryl Chen & Jane Lin Hundreds of Honda workers in Foshan, Guangdong went on strike on May 17. (The Epoch Times Photo Archive) A wave of strikes in Chinese factories recently has highlighted the lack of authentic rights for Chinese workers and ...

By MarketWatch Economic reports, earnings reports and passage of financial-reform legislation could add to market's volatility.

Welfare recipients withdrew $1.8 million from California casinos and card rooms between October and May, the Department of Social Services said Thursday.