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American International Group swung to a third-quarter profit of $1.9 billion, driven by a drop in costs tied to natural disasters and improvements in several lines of business.

General Motors announced its Q3 earnings on Wednesday and showed that European losses worsened but North America continued to churn out decent profits. GM’s results are similar to Ford Motors' which were announ...

Juju.com releases a monthly Job Search Difficulty Index, which measures the difficulty of finding employment in 50 major cities around the country. The Index is calculated by dividing the number of unemployed workers in ...

Investors were free to trade shares in the FTSE 250 gold miner

A look at the wake of one of the biggest storms to ever hit the East Coast.

Estimates of the financial toll of Hurricane Sandy are already in the tens of billions of dollars and likely to rise further. Insurers and reinsurers are expected to have exposure to about half the total, but for investo...

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Famed money manager and prescient bubble spotter Jeremy Grantham is worried about the market. He wants nothing to do with the stocks in 2013 --except the very biggest blue chips. Hedge fund great Jim Rogers is likewise f...

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U.S. stock stocks are trading higher Thursday morning after encouraging employment data. ADP reported that the economy added 158,000 private sector jobs last month, while new jobless claims fell 9,000 to 363,000.

After a quiet resumption of trading Wednesday the U.S. stock market got off to a fast start Thursday, as investors embraced a pair of improved reports on the job market.

BT, Lloyds and BSkyB gave a lift to the blue-chip index.

Tens of millions of people braved traffic and patchy public transit to return to work after Sandy's destructive passage, while others sought only to create a semblance of modern life without electricity, running water an...

The focus to finance investment abroad is partly driven by the lack of domestic demand for loans. But heftier profit margins have played a part, too.

Powered by generators, surrounded by flooding and staffed at partial strength, the Big Board cranked back to life for the first time since Sandy swept the East Coast. The Dow industrials closed down 10.75 points at 13096...

Greece's parliament narrowly approved a law giving the government greater flexibility to privatize public utilities, but the fractious vote underscored a widening rift within the ruling coalition.

The New York Stock Exchange got it right closing for two days in response to the storm on the East Coast, writes David Weidner.

Americans are increasingly asking their banks for mortgages but banks are wary of lending money to buy homes, a trend that could crimp the housing recovery.

MetLife swung to a third-quarter loss as the life insurer recorded a hefty impairment charge, though operating profit improved.