NEW YORK — The wildest week in Wall Street’s history is ending on an up note. A rebound in retail sales in July helped the stock market push higher Friday. The week has been marked by seesaw trading. The Dow ...

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Maryland’s top credit rating from Standard & Poor’s will likely remain untarnished through at least the end of the year, the state treasurer’s office said Tuesday. The news eased the three-day vigil for state officials who waited for news from ...

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NEW YORK — U.S. stocks are rising in early trading, a day after their worst drop since 2008. The Federal Reserve meets Tuesday and traders are speculating that it may announce more help for the economy, which has stumbled this ...

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The future of Maryland’s sterling credit rating hung in doubt Monday evening after the downgrade of the nation’s debt whipped investors into a panic and pushed the stock market into a free fall. The months-long stalemate on Capitol Hill that ...

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WASHINGTON — Ben Barnhard had reason to be optimistic this summer: The 13-year-old shed more than 100 pounds at a rigorous weight-loss academy, a proud achievement for a boy who had endured classmates’ taunts about his obesity and who had ...

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WASHINGTON — When it meets Tuesday, the Federal Reserve could signal what it can or will do to help the nation avoid another recession. Since the Fed last met in June, Standard & Poor’s has downgraded long-term U.S. debt, stock ...

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SUITLAND — Federal workers and their union representatives are expressing concerns about how budget cuts will affect federal jobs. Federal employees filled a library at the U.S. Census Bureau Complex in Suitland on Friday to listen to Democratic Sen. Ben ...

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WASHINGTON — Ending a perilous stalemate, President Barack Obama announced agreement Sunday night with Republican congressional leaders on a compromise to avoid the nation’s first-ever financial default. The deal would cut more than $2 trillion from federal spending over a ...

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WASHINGTON — Six days away from a potentially calamitous government default, House Republicans appeared to be coalescing Wednesday around a work-in-progress plan by House Speaker John Boehner to increase the U.S. borrowing limit and chop $1 trillion in federal spending. ...

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WASHINGTON — In a blunt challenge to President Barack Obama, House Republicans drafted legislation Monday to avert a threatened Aug. 2 government default — but along lines the White House has already dismissed. U.S. financial markets shrugged off the uncertainty. ...

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