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Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.’s Chapter 11 filing Monday ended nearly two weeks of speculation that the company would seek bankruptcy to restructure its debt during […]

The Federal Reserve has a two-day meeting next week to discuss what to do with interest rates. That’s two days more than the central […]

The U.K.’s inflation rate fell the most since at least 1997 in December as tax cuts and the deepening recession eased price pressures across […]

JPMorgan Chase reported a surprise quarterly profit Thursday, even as the company suffered a hit in its investment banking business and was forced to […]

U.S. auto sales in 2009 should fall about 13 percent and reach their lowest level in 27 years, pressuring the U.S. economy and pushing […]

Chicago faces the worst slump in retailing growth in at least a decade - and residents of the Windy City and its suburbs are […]

The Federal Reserve’s new lending programs should help cushion the impact of the year-old U.S. recession but a large traditional fiscal stimulus plan is […]