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A fracking-fueled job boom has erupted in parts of the U.S. and wages of gas workers have increased. But in New York fracking is banned. That hasn’t stopped an upstate New York school from offering training courses for work in gas fields, because many expect Gov. Andrew Cuomo to lift the ban.

With only a few days left until the fall starts, you can still get in some beach reading. Here are the best books about investing and Wall Street to come out this summer.

Gawker.com dumped a ton of data about presidential candidate Mitt Romney's finances. This is the background that may help you explain it.

In a speech in Singapore, Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit said the firm needed to be restructured after the financial crisis.

The peacock network has turned its mildly irritating coverage of the Olympics into a certifiable debacle. It's an old page in the Wall Street playbook.

Two fascinating pieces of research from Keefe Bruyette & Woods estimates how much American banks may be on the hook for as the LIBOR scandal grows.

As the scandal into rate-rigging grows, more theories and information are emerging about how, exactly, banks may have manipulated an important interest rate called LIBOR.

JP Morgan announced the full scale of its disastrous "London Whale"loss to date. This is our primer on what you should know.

JP Morgan, already on the hot seat for a big $2 billion trading loss, admits that it lost more than $4.4 billion, and added that its traders lied about the size of the loss to make it look better.

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