ECONOMY & MARKETS

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has delivered billions of dollars to Americans. Will Congress make its job harder?

The ongoing rise in American equities owes mainly to companies repurchasing their own shares, Deutsche Bank's Binky Chadha writes.

China's regulator says it will continue with measures to "restore investor confidence," as authorities defend massive intervention in the market.

Jingyu Toy Products manufactures toys for big-name toy companies like Hasbro, Mattel and Takara Tomy.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has until Wednesday night to get the measures adopted in the assembly.

The ACLU wants Obama to prevent federal employers from seeking information about job applicants' criminal backgrounds.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and his congressional allies are preparing to unveil the most ambitious federal minimum wage hike to date.

An expansive black market for cheese and other imported food products, complete with signals and back room haggling now exists in Russia.

The country secured a 7.16 billion euro bridge financing from the European Financial Stability Mechanism (EFSM) last week.

French President François Hollande said an elected parliament for the countries that use the euro might cure what ails Europe.

Unreliable Greek statistics with frequent data revisions have been blamed in part for pushing the country to a financial crisis.

Germany’s finance minister said Chancellor Merkel’s more flexible stance on Greece is “part of democracy.”

China’s vice finance minister says, “There is a mismatch for supervision, and that is a real challenge.”

Panos Skourletis, a close Tsipras ally who left the labor ministry to take over the vital energy portfolio, said the reshuffle marked "an adjustment by the government to a new reality."

After capital controls were imposed on Greece's banking system, supplies of imported dietary supplements to feed 2,200 animals are under threat.

Kansas City Council members have approved a $13-per-hour minimum-wage rate by 2020.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has said debt relief for Greece violates EU law. But international finance experts say that's an exaggeration.

Athens faces more steps before a deal can be finalized with international creditors.

Asked if the proposed bailout deal was viable, Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, told an interviewer, "The response is quite categorical: No." 

Gap and H&M sit on the sidelines as their Burmese suppliers fight a proposed minimum wage of about $3.25 a day.

The issue of debt relief for Greece is "uncontroversial," Mario Draghi, chief of the European Central bank, said on Thursday.

European stocks rose after the European Central Bank announced the new pledges, but uncertainty clouds the issue.

Alpha Natural Resources may soon join other U.S. mining firms in filing for bankruptcy.

Following opposition in parliament and on the streets, Greek support for a bailout remains high.

Mario Draghi said the European Central Bank "continues to act on the assumption that Greece is and will remain a member of the euro area."

These short-term funds were estimated at 7 billion euro ($7.7 billion) and would go toward Greece's July budget.

The IMF opposition to the latest Greek bailout deal reflects years of growing trepidation over Greece's long-term debt sustainability.

After the IMF's shock move this week in calling for Greece to be given a write-down on its "highly unsustainable debt," Germany unexpectedly finds itself under pressure.

Key changes after the lifting of sanctions would not occur in the pharma industry but in the Iranian banks that serve it.