Mortgage lenders are being pressured to re-negotiate the terms on critical U.S. housing loans, while the rising foreclosure rate still threatens the national economy like an incoming sandstorm.

Oil prices slipped below $76 a barrel Friday in Asia ahead of U.S. unemployment figures that will provide an important guide to the strength of the economic recovery and demand for crude.

Los Angeles alone has nearly 1,000 places where, with a doctor's note, you can legally buy pot. But the illegal side of marijuana is also thriving

The Department of Energy is considering risking billions of taxpayer dollars on loan guarantees for construction of new EPR nuclear reactors. One of these reactors--Calvert Cliffs-3 on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland--is reportedly on DOE's

The Venezuelan govt has intervened in 4 linked banks that were not complying with administrative norms, & has also arrested their main shareholder, Ricardo Fernandez, who is known as a supporter of the govt. The intervention aims to protect bank clients.

As you may know with the economy the way it is today truck lease operators are feeling the financial lows that are being felt all over the United States. Semi Truck lease rates are as high as they have ever been and truck load rates are at their lowest

Fears are growing over Britain's exposure to the financial turmoil in the stricken Arab state of Dubai. UK banks account for half the £60billion of global loans to the debt-laden emirate, new statistics show.

Darcia North Wind felt the stares whenever she'd show up at a construction site or the scene of a fire. She passed all the tests to be a firefighter and was able to handle an electric jackhammer as well as her male

President Barack Obama had stated his administration had saved and created a surplus of jobs recently and at first it was an unverifiable assertion, then it became bureaucratic ineptitude with possible fraud involvement. Obama's transparency isn't working

Again this year, most New Jersey state workers have the day after Thanksgiving off. But at a price: They are on unpaid furlough.