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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie Tuesday again rebuffed a growing chorus of Republican pleas for him to enter the 2012 White House race.

Fitch Ratings affirms the 'AA+' ratings on the following Santa Margarita/Dana Point Authority, CA (the authority) general obligation (GO) and GO refunding bonds:

U.S. businesses shrugged off an uncertain economic environment and stepped up orders for capital goods in August, a sign the economy was not falling back into recession.

It's a U.S. economy in which you take the good news where you can get it, and Wednesday the nation received some: President Barack Obama's $447 billion jobs plan would help avoid a recession by maintaining GDP growth and lowering unemployment, according to a new survey of economists.

New orders for long-lasting manufactured goods slipped in August on weak demand for motor vehicles, but a rebound in a gauge of business spending supported views the economy would likely avoid another recession.

Nielsen, the market research company, has announced the results of its latest survey according to which people are crowding for Android devices. At the same time, it has cautioned investors that Apple's iOS will soon pick up with the release of the iPhone

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie Tuesday again rebuffed a growing chorus of Republican pleas for him to enter the 2012 White House race.

Wall Street honchos laugh at the Occupy Wall Street protestors from their spots along the balcony of Cipriani Club Residences.

More U.S. retailers looking for fresh markets are turning to Canada, lured by their northern neighbor's resilient economy, strong currency and the familiarity with their brands.

The bi-national health insurance was Perry’s one ambitious plan to provide Texas-funded coverage for both U.S. and Mexican border residents. Perry wanted to implement “an important study that will look at the feasibility of bi-national health insurance” that could “treat maladies unique to this region.”

Home prices were unchanged on average in July in a sign that the weak housing market could be stabilizing, a survey showed on Tuesday.

One thing is clear. There's nothing like a gold standard when it comes to analyzing the way the precious metal prices have behaved in the past three months. Gold's decade-long bull run peaked in the last three months when the prices went up by around 30 percent.

President Barack Obama said on Monday that Europe's debt crisis was scaring the world and eurozone leaders were not acting fast enough, underscoring concerns about the fallout for the U.S. economy and his own re-election chances.

G20 labor ministers meeting on Monday and Tuesday in Paris face the tricky task of trying to boost job creation in the face of a fast-deteriorating economic outlook without undermining already strained public finances.

President Barack Obama said on Monday the debt crisis in Europe was scaring the world and that leaders in the euro zone were not dealing with the issue quickly enough.

Last week, the California legislature sent the governor a bill that would ban most employers from running credit checks on job applicants. If the governor signs the bill into law (which this web site tells us he’s likely to), California will become the biggest get yet for those pushing for such laws around the nation. Is this just what a country full of unemployed people with wrecked credit needs? Or is it, as HR managers have been hollering, a way of hindering them from finding good, upstandin...

On Sunday, France's Socialist Party took control of the upper house of parliament, taking the senate majority from the hand's of President Nicolas Sarkozy's center-right Union for a Popular Movement.

Expanded Federal Reserve efforts to boost tepid growth and cut high unemployment are justified as broken housing markets and depleted household wealth act as a brake on the recovery, a top Fed official said on Monday.

President Barack Obama harshly criticized Republican opponents on Sunday as he began a West Coast fundraising tour, accusing them of ideological pushback at a time of national crisis.

Expanded Federal Reserve efforts to boost tepid growth and cut high unemployment are justified as broken housing markets and depleted household wealth act as a brake on the recovery, a top Fed official said on Monday.

Even as G-20 leaders grapple with the global financial crisis, a larger, over-arching concern is limiting GDP growth in the U.S., and, to a lesser degree, in other developed economies and, by extension, decreasing the capacity of the these nations to counteract the crisis: inadequate wage growth.