The new gold rush is on. The price of the precious metal is soaring, hitting a record $1,119 an ounce Wednesday - confounding market analysts who thought there was no way gold would remain so expensive when it first cracked the unheard-of $1,000 mark last year. ...more

November 12, 2009

Investors' despair about financial companies and the recession has brought the Dow Jones industrial average to another unwanted milestone: its first drop below 7,000 in more than 11 years. ...more

March 3, 2009

After working 28 years for a Park Avenue publishing company in New York, Linda Quirk of Brandon was pretty confident of her job security. ...more

January 14, 2009

After working 28 years for a Park Avenue publishing company in New York, Linda Quirk of Brandon was pretty confident of her job security. ...more

January 13, 2009

WASHINGTON - Eager to show that he feels people's pain, President Bush scuttled a political fundraising trip Thursday to tell the country his administration is working feverishly to calm turmoil in the financial markets. ...more

September 18, 2008

It's the stuff of western dramas where rugged men went looking for it in the mountains. It's the glittering metal used in fancy jewelry, the highest honors for sports and the bars tucked away in heavily secured safes. These days, gold's appeal as a safe-haven investment has carried it to record prices. ...more

January 9, 2008

Construction of single-family homes in October skidded to the lowest level in 16 years although the slide was cushioned somewhat by a rebound in apartment building. ...more

November 21, 2007