The goal of a safer, sounder financial system, one that is less prone to crisis and failure and eliminates or dramatically reduces the need for taxpayer bailouts, is achievable. This is what the American people voted for last November. This is the president's clear mandate.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says the big trading loss at JPMorgan Chase shows the need to finally put in place banking rules he signed i...

The president needs something big to establish his cred as tough on Wall Street. But fortunately, the thing he needs is right in front of him: the settlement talks with the bankers.

WASHINGTON -- Former Republican congressman Pete Hoekstra, who is now running for the U.S. Senate in Michigan, called for the repeal of Wall Street re...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is warning voters that Republicans seeking control of Congress would roll back his hard-won Wall Street over...

Barack Obama was "incredulous" at what he was hearing, said one of his top economic advisers. The president had spent his first year in office oversee...

WASHINGTON — Reveling over a new milestone in his presidency, a triumphant Barack Obama on Wednesday signed into law the most sweeping overhaul ...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says House passage of a massive overhaul of financial regulations is a victory for everyone who was hurt by ...

RACINE, Wis. — Sensitive to election-year resentment over big government, President Barack Obama declared Wednesday he intends to get "our debt ...

RNC chair Michael Steele took to the airwaves on Tuesday to demand that the Obama administration not "demonize" and "demagogue" the financial sector, ...

Thirty-eight hours after Scott Brown's smack-upside-the-head victory in the race for Ted Kennedy's former Senate seat, Barack Obama took the podium in...

President Obama plans to use 1,500 pages of often arcane new financial regulations governing a highly complex industry in a populist Main Street messa...

ERICA WERNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON - Closer watch over Wall Street will help consumers make better informed choices about investing and shine ...