Prices for Venezuelan oil reached their lowest level in 22 months Friday as fears of a global recession stalled demand, slashing the main source of cash for President...

Georgia regulators have shut down The Community Bank, the 20th failure this year of a federally insured institution.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin isn’t the only government official hawking goods online. With the economy continuing to tumble, more state and local governments are using...

Wall Street staged a comeback Friday, with the major indexes jumping more than 5 percent and the Dow Jones industrials surging nearly 500 points.

Croatia’s president urged Balkan leaders on Friday to boost economic cooperation as a means of limiting regional fallout from the global economic crisis.

In all the finger-pointing about the credit crisis, there’s one unusual suspect: an accounting standard.

President-elect Barack Obama and his likely choice for Treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, should have a lot to talk about. Like Obama, Geithner spent time abroad as...

Leaders of Asia and the Americas faced mounting pressure Friday to stop the spread of the financial crisis and resuscitate moribund free-trade talks as they flew into...

The dollar mostly fell Friday as stocks surged nearly 500 points on reports that President-elect Barack Obama plans to name New York Federal Reserve President Timothy...

President-elect Barack Obama is likely to name Timothy Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve, as Treasury Secretary in a time of intense economic turmoil...

Former Ecuadorean leaders said Friday that President Rafael Correa was playing politics when he accused them of taking bribes during $3.9 billion in debt...

Wall Street staged a surprising comeback Friday, with the major indexes jumping more than 5 percent and the Dow Jones industrials surging nearly 500 points in a late...

A developer is suing two Spanish-owned hotel groups for allegedly stealing nearly 100 truckloads of sand from a beachfront property in Jamaica.

Former Ecuadorean leaders said Friday that President Rafael Correa was playing politics when he accused them of taking bribes during $3.9 billion in debt...

Word of mouth is one of the most common ways homebuyers and sellers find a real estate agent. Now, there are several Web sites that tout a more scientific approach:...

Here’s a look at how foodmakers H.J. Heinz Co. and J.M. Smucker Co. fared in the most recent quarter:

America’s third-largest oil supplier has exported 17 percent less crude this year.

Officials say an explosion has shut down a pipeline in southeastern Turkey that carries oil from Iraq to the Mediterranean.

With consumers looking for comfort foods and ways to save money, foodmakers H.J. Heinz Co. and J.M. Smucker Co. posted higher earnings Friday and said they’re...

Only four months after peaking at an unheard of $4.11 a gallon, the national average price for gasoline tumbled below $2 Friday, its lowest point in more than three...