Stocks fell on Monday as a statement from President Barack Obama fell short of addressing worries the recovery is faltering, while investors looked ahead with caution to important economic data coming this week.
Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Donald Kohn will take his central banking expertise to the Brookings Institution after he retires this week from four decades at the Fed, Brookings announced on Monday.
Streamlining export restrictions on defense goods and high-technology products will help create manufacturing jobs while boosting national security
Stocks accelerated declines on Monday after comments from U.S. President Barack Obama did little to soothe investors anxious over the slowing pace of the recovery.
Stocks dipped on Monday as confidence about the economy sagged and investors were cautious ahead of several key reports coming this week.
Russia's paramount leader, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, hinted on Monday he would return to the presidency in 2012 for six more years and said democracy protesters marching without permission deserved to be beaten.
President Barack Obama said on Sunday the U.S. economy was expanding, but not quickly enough, and there was no magic bullet that will fix its problems.
U.S. President Barack Obama pledged on Sunday to finish restoring the Gulf Coast area hit by Hurricane Katrina, five years after the storm ravaged the region and hurt the credibility of his Republican predecessor.
U.S. President Barack Obama pledged on Sunday to finish restoring the Gulf Coast area hit by Hurricane Katrina, five years after the storm ravaged the region and hurt the credibility of his Republican predecessor.
U.S. President Barack Obama's message this weekend that Iraq would chart its own course may have been welcome news for war-weary Americans, but it has fuelled anxieties about the future among Iraqis.
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Foreign and Afghan troops killed 24 insurgents as they fought off pre-dawn attacks on two bases in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said, with the Taliban saying suicide bombers the fighters.
President Barack Obama said on Saturday Iraq could chart its own course and told Americans the drawdown of U.S. troops helped fulfil a promise he made during the 2008 presidential campaign.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed meetings with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas every two weeks to improve the prospects of Middle East peace talks, a diplomatic source said on Friday.
U.S. economic growth likely was much weaker than initially thought between April and June, hurt by surging imports and as rebuilding of business inventories softened, a government report is expected to show on Friday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Thursday mocked rumours that he was suffering from cancer as wishful thinking by his squalid enemies.
U.S. economic growth likely was much weaker than initially thought between April and June, hurt by surging imports and as rebuilding of business inventories softened, a government report is expected to show on Friday.
New U.S. jobless claims fell more than expected last week but were too high to signal a shift in a weak labor market that is constraining economic growth.
New U.S. jobless claims fell more than expected last week but were too high to signal a shift in a weak labor market that is constraining economic growth.
Stunned and disappointed Obama administration officials said on Tuesday they would appeal a federal court ruling that temporarily barred federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
The White House is reviewing all options for responding to a court ruling stopping federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
President Barack Obama's administration asked U.S. doctors Monday to get on board with health reform legislation passed in March, saying those who embrace change will prosper.
