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Banks and their law firms are busy figuring out how to comply with the new “Volcker rule” guidelines, while regulators are headed on a collision course over who gets supremacy in enforcement. [...]

President Barack Obama is close to nominating former Bank of Israel chief Stanley Fischer to become the vice chairman of the Federal [...]

A roaring stock market and rising interest rates are fueling the strongest recovery in the $2.4 trillion U.S. corporate-pension sector in more than a [...]

Federal Reserve officials hope to use an experimental bond-trading program known as a ‘reverse repo’ facility to fundamentally change the way the central bank sets short-term interest rates. [...]

House Republican leaders threw their weight behind a two-year budget deal, planning to bring it to a vote Thursday as opposition in both parties failed to gain enough traction to threaten [...]

Lawmakers left an extension of jobless benefits out of their budget agreement, fueling the debate over what happens to unemployed workers—and the economy—when the program expires. [...]

Capital: Columnist David Wessel finds that economic sanctions have improved from their lauded, but questionable, success in ending South Africa’s apartheid to their role in bringing Iran to the nuclear negotiating table. [...]

The federal budget deficit narrowed in the first two months of the new fiscal year as government coffers continued to benefit from rising tax [...]

House Republican leaders threw their weight behind the two-year budget deal and planned to bring it to a vote Thursday, amid signs bipartisan complaints weren’t broad enough to threaten [...]

A lifeline for people who have exhausted their unemployment benefits is on the verge of coming to an end, after Republicans and Democrats clashed in budget talks over how to cover the [...]

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s tax commission on Monday recommended $2 billion in tax cuts and rebates aimed mostly at reducing levies on property, providing a blueprint for the governor’s 2014 fiscal agenda. [...]

All five of the necessary regulators voted to approve the long-delayed Volcker rule Tuesday as federal regulators moved to bar banks from making risky bets with their own [...]

President Obama is close to nominating former Bank of Israel chief Stanley Fischer as Fed vice [...]

All five of the necessary regulators voted to approve the long-delayed Volcker rule Tuesday as federal regulators moved to bar banks from making risky bets with their own [...]

All five of the necessary regulators voted to approve the long-delayed Volcker rule Tuesday as federal regulators moved to bar banks from making risky bets with their own [...]

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors and the SEC voted to approve the long-delayed Volcker rule as regulators moved to bar banks from making risky bets with their own [...]

The Volcker rule will put in place new hurdles for banks that buy and sell securities on behalf of clients and will restrict compensation that provides incentives for risky trading, according to a [...]

Wells Fargo& Co. Chief Executive John Stumpf said Tuesday the economy is healing, five years after the bank purchased Wachovia Corp. in the midst of a global financial [...]

The net worth of U.S. households and nonprofit organizations—the values of homes, stocks and other assets minus debts and other liabilities—rose 2.6%, or about $1.9 trillion, in the third quarter of 2013 to $77.3 trillion, according to the [...]

An annual push by doctors to delay cuts to Medicare patient fees is afoot, but this time the prognosis is better for a permanent solution to the long-festering [...]

Broken streetlights are a prime example of Detroit’s decline. Nearly half of the city’s 88,000 street lamps are dark, according to city estimates. A new authority aims to borrow funds to revamp the system. [...]

The net worth of U.S. households and nonprofit organizations—the values of homes, stocks and other assets minus debts and other liabilities—rose 2.6%, or about $1.9 trillion, in the third quarter of 2013 to $77.3 trillion, according to the [...]

The Outlook: Despite its cheap energy and other advantages, America is still losing ground to emerging markets in the battle for foreign [...]

China posted its biggest trade surplus in almost five years, as soaring exports outpaced modest import growth, potentially resurrecting a source of friction with the [...]

Fed officials are closer to winding down their $85 billion-a-month bond-purchase program, possibly as early as December, in the wake of Friday’s encouraging jobs report. [...]

The most powerful man in the Motor City says he has one regret since driving into town in March: “I probably underestimated the level of [...]

Fed officials are closer to winding down their $85 billion-a-month bond-purchase program, possibly as early as December, in the wake of Friday’s encouraging jobs report. [...]

China posted its biggest trade surplus in almost five years, as soaring exports outpaced modest import growth, potentially resurrecting a source of friction with the [...]

U.S. employers are gaining confidence heading into year’s end, hiring at the quickest clip since before Washington’s political dysfunction rattled consumers and businesses this [...]

The government’s main snapshot of the job market revealed surprising resilience as Americans continue to get back to [...]

A report showing the jobless rate had dropped to a five-year low threatened to take some steam out of efforts to extend emergency benefits for millions of long-term unemployed [...]

Fed officials are likely to give strong consideration to pulling back on bond purchases in light of the solid gain in jobs and drop in the unemployment rate to [...]

House Speaker John Boehner appeared to step back from an offer to consider renewing expiring jobless benefits after the jobless rate hit a five-year [...]

Congressional budget negotiators are working to wrap up a two-year fiscal agreement that would put to rest the threat of a government shutdown in [...]

The economy grew at a faster pace in the third quarter than first thought, but underlying figures suggest slower growth in the year’s final [...]

The economy grew at a faster pace in the third quarter than first thought, but underlying figures suggest slower growth in the year’s final [...]

The economy grew at a faster pace in the third quarter than initially thought, though underlying figures suggest slower growth in the final months of the [...]

Moody’s Investors Service sees a rise coming in state revenues, despite a slowing recovery, because of stock gains and private-sector growth. [...]

The U.S. economy expanded at a “modest to moderate” pace in recent months, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday in a report that showed mixed economic conditions across the nation just weeks before a key policy decision by the central [...]

The U.S. economy expanded at a “modest to moderate” pace in recent months, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday in a report that showed mixed economic conditions across the nation just weeks before a key policy decision by the central [...]

The U.S. economy expanded at a “modest to moderate” pace in recent months, with strength coming from the manufacturing sector and consumer spending, according to the Federal Reserve’s survey of regional economic [...]

Sales of new homes picked up in October and inventory fell, a sign the housing market may be stabilizing after a sharp summer [...]

U.S. factories expanded in November for the sixth straight month, signaling stronger demand at home and abroad that could boost growth prospects into next [...]

Retail spending over Thanksgiving weekend dropped for the first time in at least seven years, as the blitz of deals and earlier opening hours apparently failed to pry more dollars out of the hands of budget-conscious [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court left in place a 2008 New York state law aimed at collecting millions in sales taxes from online purchases by state residents, rejecting a legal challenge by online retail giant Amazon.com [...]