The music stopped early last year, when the housing bubble burst, triggering an economic slowdown in the all-important U.S. consumer economy, as house prices tumbled by 40 to 70 per cent where...
WASHINGTON, May 1 - The true dimensions of the U.S. credit crisis will become much clearer next week with the release of results from unprecedented government "stress tests" of the nation's 19 largest banks and...
``It's time to start buying,'' said Hiroyuki Bando, chief manager for fixed income, equities and currencies in Tokyo at Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp. ``The economy will become weaker. Interest rates will go lower.'' ...
SAN DIEGO, Oct 11 - Small companies create more than half of America's jobs, but the entrepreneurs who drive this part of the economy continue to complain that access to credit two years into the...
NEW YORK, Aug 4 - U.S. corporate bonds, after rallying nearly nonstop since March, may be poised...
U.S. Treasury debt prices slipped on Tuesday as supply worries weighed on the market ahead of a record $28 billion auction of five-year notes, analysts said...
TOKYO, Sept 19 - The Nikkei share average rose 3.1 percent on Friday, buoyed by news that the U.S. government is considering a comprehensive solution to the financial crisis. As of 0051 GMT, the benchmark...
NEW YORK, July 22 - Multiple market signals are leading analysts to bet that the worst credit crisis since the 1930s is easing...
LONDON, March 24 - Top executives from 13 major African, Asian, European and U.S. banks held talks about capital adequacy, regulatory reform and attempts to revive the global economy at a meeting with Britain's prime...
U.S. crude oil traded at 20-month lows and key industrial metals slumped to a three-year bottom on Wednesday as analysts questioned the ability of governments to handle the global credit crisis...