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NEW YORK (AP) - Les Hinton, the chief executive of Dow Jones & Co. and publisher of The Wall Street Journal, resigned on Friday, becoming the latest News Corp. executive casualty in the phone-hacking...

NEW YORK (AP) - So much for that soft patch. A rebound in U.S. manufacturing surprised investors Friday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average up nearly 170 points. The Dow ended up 648 points, or...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - The flooding along the Missouri River is putting a financial strain on people whose homes or farms are under water, but some help is available.

WEAK TECH: Poor earnings results from Micron Technology and Oracle Corp. helped send lead the broad stock market lower. ANOTHER DOWN WEEK: The S&P 500 lost 0.2 percent for the week, and the Dow Jones...

Signs that a solution to Greece's debt problems could be near helped the stock market eke out its first week of gains since April. Germany softened its conditions for giving Greece more loans on Friday,...

Unrest in Greece rattled global financial markets Wednesday. Stocks suffered their biggest losses since June 1 as investors piled into lower-risk assets like the dollar and U.S. government bonds.

Since financial markets bottomed out during the Spring of 2009, investors have become accustomed to a smoother ride in asset values.  Barring a mid-2010 hiccup, a look at the