JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley on Thursday became the latest banks to reach settlements with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and other regulators as part of an investigation into the collapse of the auction-rate securities market. ...more

August 15, 2008

Focused on getting the nation's credit gears smoothly working again, the Federal Reserve is letting Wall Street firms draw emergency loans into next year and giving financial companies more options to help them overcome credit problems. ...more

July 31, 2008

Drinkers of Coca-Cola can expect to pay more starting this fall after the company's biggest bottler said Thursday that it would raise prices. ...more

July 17, 2008

U.S. manufacturing grew in June and a measure of prices jumped to a 29-year high, underscoring the Federal Reserve's concern that economic growth will be accompanied by faster inflation. ...more

July 2, 2008

There are new signs that the worst of the global credit crisis is yet to come, and that banks and brokerages caught up in the market turmoil may lose $1 trillion by the time it has passed. ...more

June 19, 2008

Lehman Bros. Chief Executive Richard Fuld on Monday took the blame for the company's staggering second-quarter loss and said the investment bank was too slow in reacting to the credit crisis. ...more

June 17, 2008

Lehman Bros. Holdings on Monday confirmed fears on Wall Street that the credit crisis isn't quite over, and it left investors to wonder whether other major investment banks face the same set of risks. ...more

June 10, 2008

REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS The address shown is the property address listed by the buyer. Most of the sales took place during the past six weeks. This is not a complete list of real estate transactions. Sales are listed by city, in ascending value. ...more

June 8, 2008

Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch & Co. and Lehman Bros. Holdings Inc. plummeted in New York trading after Standard & Poor's lowered credit ratings for the investment banks, saying they may have to book more write-downs on devalued assets. ...more

June 3, 2008

Billionaire investor George Soros said the "acute phase" of the financial crisis is "largely behind us" even as the U.S. economy is only now starting to feel the effect. ...more

May 8, 2008