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Banks are making it easier to borrow, but loans are still hard to get. That's the conclusion of a report on bank lending released today by the Fe...

Home sales in Southern California fell to their lowest level for a July in four years, the LA Times reports. The decline from a year earlier was ...

The price of oil jumped more than two-and-a-half percent today to more than $87 a barrel. The rally in shares on Wall Street, and a report that ...

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The likelihood of the U.S. slipping back into recession doubled in the past three months, according to a survey of 39 economists by USA TODAY. Th...

Joining the ranks of those in favor of raising taxes on the rich today, one of the richest of them all. Warren Buffett. "My friends and I have b...

Lost decade. Zombie banks. Nuclear disaster. Headlines like that don't make Japan the obvious choice for the poster child for economic recovery. ...

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