Asian markets have advanced, with Japan's benchmark approaching the symbolically important 50,000 level for the first time as ...

The price of gold surged above US$4,100 (A$6,300) an ounce on Wednesday for the first time, taking this year’s extraordinary ...

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate by a quarter-point Wednesday and projected it would do so twice more this year as concern grows at the central bank about the health of the ...

Wall Street is concerned about the health of the nation’s regional banks, after a few of them wrote off bad loans to ...

Kentucky Senate candidate Daniel Cameron is banking on his familiarity with voters to overcome lackluster fundraising. But ...

Whatever one thinks of their politics, Bob Hawke and John Howard were two of our very best prime ministers, and together they ...