economic policy

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank is ready to give the eurozone economy a bigger dose of stimulus if turmoil in China and weaker glo...

NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on the global financial market turmoil (all times local): ___ 2:13 p.m. U.S. stocks are paring their gains, after surging i...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Details of Greece's latest bailout package were being pored over across Europe on Wednesday as Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras ins...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece agreed on the broad terms of a new financial rescue package on Tuesday, with a few details remaining to be cleared up bef...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece agreed to harsh terms for a new three-year bailout Tuesday and vowed to push it through parliament this week, despite mou...

BEIJING (AP) — China's bold move Tuesday to sharply devalue its currency could squeeze exporters around the world whose goods will likely become compa...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As lawmakers head out of the Capitol for a five-week summer recess, they leave behind a pile of unfinished business that all but gua...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department on Monday took Malaysia and Cuba off its blacklist of countries failing to combat modern-day slavery, leaving t...

BERLIN (AP) — In the race to secure business deals with Iran, Germany was quickest out of the blocks. On Sunday, Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel becam...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The 11 million people who receive Social Security disability face steep benefit cuts next year — unless Congress acts, the governmen...

WASHINGTON (AP) — After the push for trade legislation ruptured relations between the White House and organized labor, President Barack Obama is embar...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The governor warned that Puerto Rico can't pay its $72 billion public debt as international economists released a critica...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court's resounding rejection of a conservative attempt to gut President Barack Obama's health care overhaul won't stop R...

CHICAGO (AP) — Throughout the country, relief was the dominant emotion among consumers who get help from the government to lower their health insuranc...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece and its creditors publicly blamed one another for an impasse in bailout talks, on the eve of a eurozone finance ministers...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Union members broke into cheers when Hillary Rodham Clinton said she supported their efforts to create a $15-an-hour national minimu...

WASHINGTON (AP) — With a last-minute trip to the Capitol, President Barack Obama sought to quell a revolt Friday among House Democrats threatening to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress and the states will need to find an answer if the Supreme Court strikes down the federal subsidies that are a foundation of...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says his health care law is no longer just a law or a theory, but a reality for millions of Americans whose l...