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Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said a “strong case” can be made for keeping the central bank involved in bank supervision, and subjecting interest rate policy to congressional audits may undermine confidence in monetary policy. “There is a strong case for a continued role for the Federal Reserve in bank supervision,” the Fed Chairman said in a commentary released ...
The resounding censure of Iran on Friday by the board of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog, signals the start of a potentially more confrontational phase in the Obama administration's dealings with the Islamic republic, including the prospect of strengthened U.S.-led...
Instead of going straight to a retailer, online shoppers may do better by choosing another entrance to that retailer’s Web site.
WASHINGTON_ The Obama administration said Friday that it's carefully watching developments in a looming debt default by the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai, whose efforts to fend off creditors sent stocks skidding in the United States and around the globe amid fears of new bank losses.
Q: My mother sold her house in 2002. The purchaser paid off the existing mortgage, and my mother financed the rest, which was $18,000 and which was due the next year. The buyers now pay $100 a month on the balloon loan.
Tiger Woods suffered facial injuries in a single vehicle car smash outside his Florida mansion in which his wife had to use a golf club to break a window of their SUV and rescue him.
In upstate New York, landowners’ conflict over whether to allow drilling for natural gas has set neighbor against neighbor, even spouse against spouse.
Nearly three years after jobs started vanishing in Rhode Island at an alarming pace, House lawmakers will gather Tuesday for their first forum on one of the worst recessions since the Great Depression.
Megawatt superstar and world No. 1 golfer Tiger Woods was injured in a one-car accident early Friday near his Florida home that left him with facial lacerations. After being taken to Health Central Hospital in Ocoee by ambulance, Woods, 33, was treated and released.
A Florida man opened fire on his family after Thanksgiving dinner, killing his pregnant sister, 6-year-old cousin and two other relatives before speeding off and initiating a statewide manhunt, police said Friday.
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks tumbled, joining a global slump that began when American exchanges were closed yesterday, as Dubai’s attempt to reschedule debt rattled investors and drove shares of banks lower.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg spent about $174 per vote, according to data released on Friday.
The first lady of South Carolina has reacted to her husband’s infidelity by building up herself — and her carreer.
Gold prices tumbled nearly 5 percent to a one-week low below $1,140 an ounce on Friday as investors fearing debt default in Dubai sought safety in dollars and cash.
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve gave U.S. financial companies six more months to comply with rules intended to limit the use of payment systems for Internet gambling.
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Investment bankers at RBC Capital Markets , TD Securities and other Canadian firms may see bonuses jump as much as 50 percent from last year after record stock sales and a surge in mergers fueled bank fees, a recruiter said.
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