Wells Fargo & Co. will pay Maryland $20 million in settlement of claims the mortgage company misled investors – including state and local government entities – regarding the durability of its residential loans in the years preceding the Great Recession. ...

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Quitting your job — all but unheard of during and after the Great Recession — is becoming more common again. That could mean pay raises are coming for more Americans.

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Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Friday that the Great Recession complicated the Fed's ability to assess the U.S. job market and made it harder to determine when to adjust interest rates.

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U.S. employers advertised more jobs in May than in any month in the past seven years, a sign that this year's strong hiring trend is likely to continue.

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Five years after the Great Recession officially ended, most states still haven't regained all the jobs they lost, even though the nation as a whole has.

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U.S. employers added 217,000 jobs in May, a substantial gain for a fourth straight month, fueling hopes that the economy will accelerate after a grim start to the year.

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The U.S. economy has reached a milestone: It has finally regained all the private-sector jobs it lost during the Great Recession.

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WOODBINE — Hundreds of Maryland’s horses are homeless, abandoned by people who could not afford to care for them in the aftermath of the Great Recession. Horse ownership increased in the decade prior to the economic downturn in 2009. But ...

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Saul Ewing LLP’s incoming managing partner Barry F. Levin has a rule: If there’s a problem, wait 24 hours.

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama decided to stay home from economic summits in Asia as Democrats stepped up pressure on congressional Republicans to rein in their tea party faction and reopen the government with no strings attached. House Republicans said ...

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