Markets plunged this week after Standard & Poor’s downgraded the United States’ sovereign credit rating. But if history is any guide, the pronounc...

(Updates with more detail from Moody's) NEW YORK (Reuters) - Moody's Investors Service Tuesday confirmed its Aaa rating of the United States, c...

WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) -- Some students will start owing more on their loans while they're in school under a last-minute debt ceiling deal to keep the ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said he is not sure whether the bitterly fought debt agreement to be considered Tuesday by t...

These last few months, much of the country has watched in horror as the Tea Party Republicans have waged jihad on the American people. Their intransig...

In a country with a seemingly endless rise in medical costs, figuring out why certain cities are particularly prone to spending more on health care ca...

With the reported deadline to raise the debt ceiling drawing ever closer, Washington has yet to come to terms on a deal to do so -- this despite month...

WASHINGTON (Lesley Wroughton) - The United States is courting calamity with the continuing stalemate in Congress over raising the country's debt l...

(Mark Felsenthal) - The Federal Reserve plans to provide guidance to banks soon on how to handle the potentially turbulent financial waters if the...

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Analysts for Standard & Poor's don't believe the U.S. will default on its obligations, the rating agency's president, Deve...

Prioritizing U.S. debt payments to avoid a default would be "deeply disruptive" to the economy, Standard & Poor's global head of sovereign ratings...

This is not yet one of those stuff-your-money-in-a-mattress moments. Still, the talk in Washington of a federal budget crisis and possible default ...

NEW YORK -- Could the U.S. lose its top credit rating even if a deal is reached to raise the debt limit? Market analysts and investors increasingly sa...

The only thing that matters for global markets over the coming days is whether a deal can be struck in Washington over the debt ceiling. That said, th...

In the past few years, the U.S. economy has been beset by the subprime meltdown, skyrocketing oil prices, the Eurozone debt crisis, and even the Tohok...

In any reasonable negotiation, both sides can assume that certain outcomes can safely be ruled out, chief among them the possibility that one party wi...

The International Monetary Fund warned on Monday the United States must raise the debt ceiling quickly and get its debts under control for the sak...