Banking Put

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...

Ukraine's security service said on Thursday it had disrupted a cybercrime ring that cost the banking industry more than US$72 million using Conficker, a fast-spreading worm unleashed in 2008.

Special to The Mercury PHOENIXVILLE - As the GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Series starts its run to the season’s end with race seven of 10 Friday on the sprawling Road America circuit...

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,...