Looks like a slack day for the US, markets-wise, although Hong Kong's Hang Seng and the Nikkei both ended up, and European markets are also looking…

America may have thrown off the yoke of British imperialism, but British ways still seem to have a way of insinuating themselves across the Atlan…

Dick Fuld, the former CEO of now-defunct investment bank Lehman Brothers, is back in the news. For a while there, it was his wife Kathy making th…

Paddy Hirsch here, filling in for Scott until the weekend….

That's a quote from Republican Senator Lamar Alexander, who today asked protesters to be more civil when confronting Democrats over the issue of…

For so many Americans, life will be completely different, even when the economy recovers. On the downside, they probably won't be making as much…

Trading in your clunker, recycling, using energy-efficient lightbulbs. A new study says these are small potatoes when it comes to reducing carbon…

Among this morning's items: holding a summit when the answer is ridiculously obvious, photographer Annie Leibovitz's financial trouble, and a…

The SEC fined Bank of America $33 million today for lying to shareholders about bonuses paid to Merrill Lynch employees during B of A's takeover of…

Ah, the language of Twitter. It's so… (pick your word — mangled, cute, annoying?) Anyway, a story about airlines tweeting fares came up at our…