When it comes to holiday travel plans, good things may come to those who waited.

Investors continued to dump shares Tuesday after U.S. lawmakers rejected a $700 billion bailout plan aimed at stabilizing the financial system, triggering the largest point drop in Wall Street's market history.

Like a spreading contagion, the current Wall Street crisis has spread into Asian and European stock markets. Waves of financial uncertainty are circling the globe, affecting and re-affecting other markets in a chain reaction.

Consumers are just as good as professional economists at predicting the rate of inflation, a new survey finds.

A leading global energy monitor fears there may not be enough oil out there to slake the world's thirst -- and is preparing a landmark forecast that could reverberate through the global economy even as major companies announce fuel-related cutbacks.

US employers cut 63,000 jobs from their payrolls in February, the biggest decline since March 2003, Labor Department figures show.

The number 13 has long been considered unlucky by superstitious people around the globe. How fitting, then, that Bill Gates' reign as the world's richest person ends after his 13th year at the top.

China is set to replace the United States as the world's largest economy by 2025 but other emerging markets such as Vietnam, Egypt and Nigeria might offer better growth opportunities for investors.

No kidding! Nobody thought debts were good.

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said a possible recession in the U.S. this year may be deeper than the last two contractions.