By Edward Klump and Dan Hart - Sat Sep 04 19:44:46 GMT 2010 A new valve-stack system installed last night to replace the one that failed BP Plc's Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico has removed the threat of oil flowing into the water, the US government ...

By JACKIE CALMES WASHINGTON - As part of his pre-election push to spur the slumping economy and his party, President Obama this week will ask Congress to increase and permanently extend a popular but costly tax credit for businesses' research expenses, ...

By Jane M. Von Bergen The nation's unemployment rate inched up to 9.6 percent in August as public and private employers, for the third straight month, laid off more people than they hired, the Department of Labor reported Friday.

After two more days of hearings this week about the 2008 credit meltdown, the lid on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's black box remains shut and locked.

By Sean Gregory Friday, Sep. 03, 2010 "I've been to this movie a few times." Such was the response of one prominent Burger King franchisee, when asked his reaction to the $4 billion leveraged buyout that will take the country's no.