WASHINGTON — JPMorgan Chase & Co. has agreed to pay a $100 million penalty and admitted that its traders acted “recklessly” during a series of London trades that ultimately cost the bank $6 billion. The settlement announced Wednesday by the ...

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A federal jury on Monday convicted Rodney R. Hailey of selling $9.1 million worth of bogus renewable energy credits under a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency program. Judge William D. Quarles Jr. ordered Hailey, whom he deemed a flight risk, detained ...

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NEW YORK — The price of gasoline jumped by nearly a nickel over the weekend and is now $3.80 per gallon That’s the highest ever for this time of year. Pump prices have risen an average 52 cents this year ...

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WASHINGTON — Most areas of the country reported slight economic improvement in September and early October, according to a Federal Reserve survey of its 12 bank regions. But several regions said a hazier economic outlook is making businesses more cautious ...

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NEW YORK — A growing belief that the country is headed toward recession gave the stock market its fourth straight week of losses. The anxiety in the market was obvious Friday as the major indexes went from modest gains early ...

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Stocks are opening sharply lower after the government said businesses added the fewest jobs in June in more than a year. The unemployment rate rose to 9.2 percent. Employers created only 18,000 jobs last month, a fraction of what economists ...

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BARBATE, Spain — The season for an ancient and spectacular tuna-fishing technique has begun off Spain’s southwest coast, and fishermen fear it could soon disappear if fleets of factory ships elsewhere keep overfishing prized Atlantic bluefin tuna. In the method ...

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WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Wednesday approved new requirements for brokerage firms aimed at curbing risks posed by their trading customers that get split-second access to markets to buy or sell stocks. The Securities and Exchange Commission voted 5-0 at ...

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