Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Friday that the Bush administration will move ahead with a plan to buy stock in financial institutions.
For a time, it appeared that the impact of the recent financial panic and ongoing economic downturn might be contained to the U.S. No more.
Bank of America Corp.'s third-quarter profit fell 68 percent and the bank says it's selling stock and halving its dividend to boost capital.
The Federal Reserve has granted approval for Japan's largest bank to purchase a stake in U.S. investment giant Morgan Stanley.
Europeans are now calling U.S.-style capitalism fatally flawed as the financial crisis strengthens advocates of tighter regulation of banks and financial markets in Europe.
The leaders of two of the world's largest options trading and clearing entities criticized the Securities and Exchange Commission's emergency ban on short-selling scores of financial stocks.
Bank of America says it will buy back about $4.5 billion of auction-rate securities as part of a settlement agreement with Massachusetts regulators.
Mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae, taken over by the government earlier this month, announced Friday the resignations of four senior executives and said it was restructuring its organization.
By msnbc.com staff and news services A 9-year-old Detroit-area girl whose battle with Huntington's disease drew attention after she was taunted online in 2010 by her grandmother's former neighbor has died. Michigan Memorial Funeral Home in Flat Rock, which is handling arrangemen …
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