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Now that we’ve essentially socialized the mortgage business, the federal government finds itself with two incompatible objectives.
It wants to help people stay in their homes, […]

Iran has begun uranium enrichment at a new underground site built to withstand possible airstrikes, a leading hard-line newspaper reported Sunday in another show of […]

Hungary’s top financial negotiator said his nation is open to working out a standby loan with the International Monetary Fund but insisted Thursday that Hungary […]

The Sears in the Crestwood Court mall will close, the department store chain confirmed today.
A timeline for the closure was not released by the company, […]

U.S. stocks were set to open higher, as investors digest reports on personal spending and income, and await more housing data.
The Dow Jones […]

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A federal judge has blocked Apple Inc.’s attempt to prevent Samsung Electronics Co. from selling certain smartphones and tablets in the U.S. because they allegedly […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel pushed forward Friday with what markets see as an emerging plan for more effective action to contain the European financial crisis, […]

The economy is picking up. If only job growth would follow.
A spate of data Thursday showed U.S. factories grew last month at the fastest pace […]

A string of explosions hit a Baghdad market and the capital’s western outskirts on Saturday, killing at least 15 people and exposing the challenges still […]