World Economic

Moody’s Investors Service says the United States should be able to keep its triple-A credit rating as long as Washington works out a deal that […]

Stock futures plunged early Friday after the government said that economic growth slowed in the first half of the year to its slowest pace since […]

WASHINGTON — Amid rising American anger and rattled global markets, a deadlocked Washington stumbled another day nearer to the debt cliff with Republican hardliners showing […]

Stocks are falling as U.S. lawmakers remain in a bitter stalemate over raising the country’s borrowing limit.
Republican and Democratic lawmakers have offered competing proposals to […]

This month may be the slowest in the stock market in more than three years.
Trading volume, or the number of shares bought and sold, is […]

Borders Group begins liquidation sales at all of its 399 stores as the 40-year-old chain winds down operations.
A liquidation company that is part of the […]

European leaders are poised to sign off on a second bailout for Greece Thursday even at the potential cost of putting the country into default, […]

Higher prices for coal used to generate power and make steel lifted Peabody Energy Corp. second-quarter profit by 38 percent to $284.4 million.
Peabody’s quarterly sales […]

British Prime Minister David Cameron says Parliament should delay its summer break so he can brief lawmakers on the phone hacking scandal.
Parliament is due to […]

Ten rebel fighters were killed in an advance on the strategic oil town of Brega in eastern Libya on Saturday, with rebel forces sweeping the […]