Finance time

U.S. stock futures fell sharply Tuesday ahead of the first day of trading in a holiday-shortened week.
The losses came in the wake of steep declines […]

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BUFFALO, N.Y.
Buffalo’s venerable M&T Bank Corp., one of America’s 20 largest commercial lenders, tells the story of the troubled global banking industry in a nutshell.
Bob […]

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The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis will open its very-secure doors to the public for three “dialogues with the Fed” this summer and fall.
On […]

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Fairfax Media Ltd., publisher of hundreds of newspapers in Australia and New Zealand, Friday reported a $408 million annual loss after writing down the value […]

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North American markets were mostly negative at midday Friday as investors appeared ambivalent about whether the U.S. and global economies are headed for another recession […]

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CHICAGO

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A federal appeals court panel on Friday upheld a former Merrill Lynch executive’s conviction on perjury and obstruction charges that stemmed from a bogus 1999 […]

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The borrowing costs of both Spain and Italy dropped sharply in early trading Monday after the European Central Bank signaled it would intervene in the […]

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Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC swung to a second-quarter loss Friday as it wrote down the value of its Greek bond holdings by a […]

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Tens of thousands of ultraconservative Muslims in long beards, robes and prayer caps thronged Cairo’s central Tahrir Square in a massive show of force Friday, […]

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