A survey of primary dealers by the New York Fed showed much uncertainty among the 21 large banks that act as counterparties to the Fed's open market transactions.
SOPA opponents can use a new Google Chrome extension to ensure they are not unwittingly contributing to the bottom lines of companies that support the Stop Online Privacy Act.
The former Utah governor Jon Huntsman has put all of his campaign eggs in New Hampshire, hoping for a positive outcome in the state's primary next Tuesday. Despite languishing in the polls, Huntsman has made over 150 appearances in the Granite State, which he hopes will pay off and catapult him into the new Republican of Choice -- with Rick Santorum's success serving as the model.
The New Hampshire Republican Primary of 2012's date is set at January 10. For a comprehensive list of dates (on issues like corrections and absentee ballots) of the event, click here.
At its peak, the facility employed 40,000 workers during World War II and remained Wichita’s largest employed for years after the war.
With his strong showing in the Iowa caucuses, Ron Paul demonstrated that he can appeal to a segment of the electorate outside of his base, but is his message broad enough to secure a major party nomination?
The EU governments in the 27-nation bloc agreed on the Iranian oil embargo, but now need to plan a timetable for implementing the move. France has suggested a date for beginning the embargo is set at a scheduled Jan. 30 meeting of the EU foreign ministers.
Palin added that the “worst thing” the Republican Party could do is marginalize the Texas congressman.
It's been a productive couple weeks for Rick Santorum, who virtually tied with Mitt Romney for first place in the Iowa caucuses and has finally managed to push Dan Savage's Spreading Santorum Web site out of the top spot in Google searches for his name.
A former civil engineer and inspector for the original Keystone pipeline writes, Let's be clear -- I am an engineer; I am not telling you we shouldn't build pipelines. We just should not build this one.
Tis the season for protests, and Nigeria is not excluded.
President Hugo Chavez has reportedly ordered prison officials to negotiate peacefully with the protesters.
A day after her sixth-place finish in Iowa, Rep. Michele Bachmann ended her presidential campaign Wednesday and called on supporters to rally behind the Republican Party's eventual choice.
Richard Cordray's short time as Ohio's attorney general earned him national recognition as a Wall Street watchdog.
How flip-flops are being used as a mass movement against police corruption in Indonesia.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave his 2012 State of the State address Wednesday afternoon, and there were several items that apply direct to the future of New York City.
European governments have agreed in principle to ban imports of Iranian oil, EU diplomats said Wednesday, dealing a new blow to the Islamic Republic.
Jeff Ashton, one of the prosecutors from the Casey Anthony murder trial, is challenging his former boss for the office of state attorney of Orange and Osceola counties.
Rick Perry said late Tuesday night that he would return to Texas to reassess his campaign in light of his fifth-place finish in the Iowa caucuses -- but now he says he's pressing on through South Carolina.
Germany's President Christian Wulff will not resign following a home loan scandal and still insists that he did nothing illegal, but did admit that threatening newspaper editors was wrong.
Richard Cordray,President Barack Obama's nominee to head a new financial watchdog agency, said on Wednesday he was ready to get to work, and would not be distracted by challenges to his appointment.
Youthful offenders are subject to a litany of abuses, including sexual assault, from their fellow inmates and from corrections officers.
The Texas governor announced his decision to stay in the GOP primary race via Twitter, and in a recent interview while leaving Iowa, the Republican candidate confirmed that he would continue in the race despite a fifth-place finish in the Iowa caucus. Fellow candidate Michele Bachmann dropped out of the primaries today after a sixth place finish.
An App of the Year doesn't deserve the title until POTUS joins the fray. President Barack Obama, arguably the first Technophile in Chief, joined picture sharing social network Instagram the night of the Iowa Caucuses. The move signals Obama's continued reliance on social media to connect with younger voters who were integral in his 2008 electoral victory.
Chinese Billionaire, Long Liyuan, 49, died unexpectedly on Dec. 23 in Guangdong province in China after a business lunch where he ate a dish of slow boiled cat meat stew, a southern Chinese delicacy. Police believe the dish was poisoned by his business partner.
A severe attempt to clamp down on Internet freedoms, a new law has outlawed Belorussian citizens from accessing foreign Web sites; violating the law is a misdemeanor, punishable by fines and the closure of businesses.
Arizona Senator John McCain is expected to endorse Mitt Romney in New Hampshire, a sign both of his faith in the GOP frontrunner and his distaste for new rival Rick Santorum. As Santorum's near-win in Iowa makes the Republican primary result uncertain, Santorum's clashes with McCain seem to have pushed the senator to back his one-time rival.
Of the 4-million Filipinos working overseas about half of them are in the Middle East, principally Saudi Arabia.
Turkey is itself the sixth-largest buyer of Iranian oil, according to Reuters, although the two countries have had a rocky relationship.
As if being tasked with solving the Eurozone debt crisis is not job enough, German Chancellor Angela Merkel now has to defend her choice of Christian Wulff for president as information has emerged that he tried to prevent media from reporting about his private business dealings.
