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Chairman Ben Bernanke says the U.S. job market remains weak despite three months of strong hiring and that the Federal Reserve’s existing policies will help […]

Leung Chun-ying, a former government adviser who pledged to address a growing wealth gap, won the election to be Hong Kong

Call it the most profitable bank in the world.
The Federal Reserve once again made a hefty profit in 2011, as the central bank […]

This year’s budget deficit will swell by an additional $92 billion from estimates made in January after Congress later extended a payroll tax cut […]

Asian stock markets were mostly lower Monday after China’s trade figures underlined a slowdown in the world’s No. 2 economy.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fell 0.4 […]

More people applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week. But the overall level stayed low enough to suggest the job market is strengthening.
The Labor Department […]

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Worries over slowing economic growth in China and concern that a Greek bond exchange deal may not be going according to plan are pushing U.S. […]

The weak response to India’s sale of a 5 percent stake in state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp. gives New Delhi little relief as it […]

The Nasdaq composite index briefly touched 3,000 on Wednesday for the first time since the collapse in dot-com stocks more than a decade ago. Stocks […]