BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for tougher regulation aimed at stock and bond traders along with a crackdown on government debt...

Lending across the U.S. economy contracted 7.4 percent last year, the biggest such drop since 1942, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. T...

March 10 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the most profitable securities firm in Wall Street history, has made $55.7 million from the sale of ...

Wall Street firms have received fees exceeding $1 billion in less than a year selling "Build America Bonds" meant to spur jobs in struggling cities, o...

"Funny how falling feels like flying, for a little while." - Academy Award Winner Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart I've been making the final edits on ...

If today's speculators bring down the Greek economy, they will likely blow up more debtor nations, and then in a cascading effect, turn on their main benefactors, the now heavily indebted British and United States governments.

China and other foreign countries will not endlessly finance the US budget deficit; China recently sold $34 billion of American treasuries, and now holds less US debt than Japan.

But it's not just about Greece any more. Thursday's European Union summit ended with vague assurances of mutual support but did not fundamentally chan...

There is an asset allocation that is best for you. Based on the risk of that asset allocation, IFA has a recommended holding period that improves your chances of achieving the expected return.

While there are a number of different strategies to creating retirement income, I prefer to use a simple method of creating cash flow to fund distributions.

Last week, in three separate auctions, the U.S. Treasury offered up more government debt for sale than ever before -- $104 billion dollars worth of no...

Progressives are keenly aware of all the political contributions the financial industry makes. But when you are as big as these behemoths, your power stretches far beyond campaign contributions.

Some are saying Treasuries are dropping only because of the increase in federal spending while others are saying we're simply going through a standard correction. Is it possible that it signals an economic recovery?

Credit markets may not be completely healed, but they are in much better shape than they were three months ago.

May 7 (Bloomberg) -- Junk-bond investors who have spurred the biggest rally on record are getting ahead of the recovery as the rate of company failure...

The Chinese are starting to switch from investing in U.S. T-bills to buying hard assets for stockpiling or acquiring corporations at bargain-basement ...

As we face another global crisis, maybe it's time to invest in victory over the financial crisis with bonds to create jobs -- call them "job bonds."

Goldman, Sachs & Co. urged some of its big clients to place investment bets against California bonds this year despite having collected millions of do...

I may be an economic special-needs person, but there's one fact about the current credit meltdown that seems to be escaping a lot of attention.