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Americans are going to be a lot more tightfisted with their tax refunds this year, with more people planning to save the cash they […]

Asian stock markets climbed Monday after China moved to boost bank lending to shore up slowing economic growth.
Japan’s Nikkei 225 index jumped 1.4 percent to […]

Online deals site Groupon, reporting for the first time as a public company, says its fourth-quarter revenue rose sharply, but it lost money.
Groupon Inc. said […]

Which is the better gig: The federal government or the private sector?
It depends in part on education levels, according to a report put out […]

Investment brokerage firm Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. will pay $1.1 million to settle a Missouri regulator’s allegation that the firm failed to reasonably supervise a […]

American Airlines contributed only $6.5 million of the $100 million that it was supposed to pay into employee pension plans this week.
The underpayment raised tension […]

U.S. factories are roaring back from the depths of the recession, cranking out more machinery, vehicles and energy.
Factory production has surged 15 percent above its […]

French President Nicolas Sarkozy says France must have the courage and calmness to make difficult decisions to overcome the financial crisis, in his first public […]

Bank of England Governor Mervyn King may refrain from adding to emergency stimulus again today as policy makers await new forecasts and the economy showed […]

Most people on Wall Street will be getting smaller bonus checks for 2011 — except for the elite bankers.
In a year when bonuses […]