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Home Depot Inc posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit and raised its full-year forecast after cost cuts kicked in and sales improved in areas that had been hard hit by the U.S. housing downturn.

The United States is building criminal cases against more than 150 American clients of Swiss bank UBS as part of a crackdown on tax evasion now made easier by a deal over access to secret account information.

One of the stock market's favorite accepted nuggets of wisdom is the notion that there's a pile of money waiting in the wings, itching to jump back into the market.

Hurricane Bill was centered about 1,100 miles east of the Lesser Antilles on Monday morning and was moving West-Northwest at a speed of about 22 mph. Experts predicted that the Hurricane Bill is likely to make landfall.

BB&T Corp. and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. have reached an agreement to take over Colonial BancGroup in Alabama the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg reported citing anonymous sources. Colonial is Alabama's second-largest bank with $26.4 billion in assets and 355 branches in Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Nevada and Texas. The takeover would make BB&T the ninth-biggest U.S. bank by assets.

BB&T Corp. and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. have reached an agreement to take over Colonial BancGroup in Alabama the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg reported citing anonymous sources.

U.S. Southeast regional bank BB&T Corp will buy deposits and branches of Colonial BancGroup Inc following a move by regulators to take the struggling lender into receivership, media reports said, citing people familiar with the matter.

President Barack Obama was interviewed on Thursday night at the White House by an 11-year-old journalist from Florida.

Student Damon Weaver gives U.S. President Barack Obama a hard time over education, school meals and bullying.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp is taking Colonial BancGroup Inc into receivership and will sell the struggling lender's branches and deposits to BB&T Corp , Dow Jones said, citing a person familiar with the situation.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp is taking Colonial BancGroup Inc into receivership and will sell the struggling lender's branches and deposits to BB&T Corp , Dow Jones said, citing a person familiar with the situation.

U.S. home loans failed at a record pace in July despite ongoing federal and state programs to avoid foreclosures, which have severely strained housing and the economy.

U.S. carrier Delta Air Lines Inc and the Atlanta airport are close to a lease agreement that would pave the way for an $800 million bond sale, the biggest such offering in the U.S. this year, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the talks.

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today the agency he leads allocated nearly $38 million in funding economic stimulus package funds to all states to help their emergency preparedness plans in case of energy supply disruptions.

Despite weakening second home purchases in 2008, the long-term demand looks favorable for the second-home market because there are large numbers of people in the prime years for buying a second home.

U.S. non-farm productivity in the second quarter rose at its fastest pace in six years as companies slashed costs to protect profits, government data showed on Tuesday.

U.S. non-farm productivity in the second quarter rose at its fastest pace in six years as companies slashed costs to protect profits, government data showed on Tuesday.

Bank regulators closed three banks on Friday, bringing the number of failures so far this year to 72 as the weakened economy takes its toll on the financial services sector.

At scattered events across the United States, protesters are confronting members of Congress whose summer town hall meetings aim to get a sense of how Americans feel about overhauling healthcare.

Senator Mel Martinez, a native Cuban and a former chairman of the Republican Party, stunned supporters on Friday by informing them that he plans to resign from Congress, party aides said.

Florida republican, Senator Mel Martinez, has decided to leave the senate permanently in the next few weeks following his earlier announcement that he would no longer be running for re-election in 2010.