Owen Davis

The market is inching toward record highs, even as economic data remain soft and corporate earnings are set to decline.

Federal financial regulators found that borrowers who take out online payday loans can face hundreds of dollars in unexpected overdraft fees.

Reporting a steep earnings drop for the first quarter, financial giant Goldman Sachs is feeling the pain in its investment banking and trading divisions.

The closely watched stock index, which tracks the largest U.S. companies, made it past the 18,000 mark for the first time since July 2015.

The Massachusetts senator and financial reform advocate will star in a comic book series that highlights the contributions of powerful women.

The White House announced guidelines directing all federal agencies to prioritize more market competition. Here’s why that matters.

The publication’s latest cover bears an alarming statistic: Each American owes $43,000 in national debt. Here’s why that number makes no sense.

In a post attacking Bernie Sanders, who joined a workers’ strike Wednesday, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam argued the company’s $16 billion in dividends “benefit America.”

Regulators on Wednesday rejected banks’ resolution plans — outlining how they would navigate bankruptcy without wrecking the economy — in a ruling that will raise the political pressure on Wall Street.

This week’s settlement over mortgage-era misdeeds is supposed to penalize Goldman Sachs to the tune of $5.1 billion. The actual cost may be closer to $4 billion.

Although employment and consumer spending have marched ahead, corporate earnings have been in recession since late 2014. It remains to be seen if that will change this quarter.

The settlement, which Goldman disclosed in January, stems from its conduct in the subprime mortgage crisis that led to the Great Recession.

When major banks kick off earnings season this week — led by JPMorgan and Bank of America — investors should expect to see a lot of red.

Nouriel Roubini, the economist who famously foresaw the financial crisis, has warned that a British split with the European Union could lead to its demise.

A rule backed by the Obama administration could push U.S. investors from legacy broker-dealers to a new crop of tech-savvy advisers.

Edward Jones, the largest privately held broker-dealer, braces for new rules that would limit conflicts of interest in investment advice — and potentially upend the industry.

HSBC, Credit Suisse and UBS all appear among the top 10 banks that set up shell companies through the law firm Mossack Fonseca.

The e-commerce titan will offer Sprint customers monthly subscriptions on its Prime service, which has long been available only on an annual basis.

The parent of Alaska Air will likely outbid JetBlue to acquire the airline co-owned by Richard Branson, media reports said.

Azerbaijan and Armenia, two former Soviet states, have reignited a decades-old feud over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

The airport, rocked by twin terrorist bombings March 22, will accommodate a limited number of flights, officials said.

Greek leaders on Saturday sought an explanation from the International Monetary Fund after a WikiLeaks release about the country's financial crisis.

An otherwise solid jobs report for March showed the unemployment rate ticked back up to 5 percent. Here’s why that's a positive sign.

Workers are streaming back into the workforce — with utilities and healthcare leading the way — but wage growth lags.

Evidence of wage gains and a drop in part-time workers are among the details that Fed officials could be seeking from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Historically low economic growth is likely here to stay, said Charles Evans, president of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank.

A Washington judge ruled that the insurance giant shouldn't be designated as systemically important any longer.

Despite attempts by the European Central Bank to bolster economic growth, confidence in Europe’s economy is faltering.

The Fed chief’s comments in a speech about the economy Tuesday come as the gap between the Fed’s hawks and doves has grown more apparent.