Powered by a gush of strong earnings reports, the Dow has finally ballooned above 10,000 again. But could this most recent leg of the market rally turn out to be a cruel hoax?
Finding a boyfriend is only the beginning when it comes to relationship woes. Once you're in one, you have to deal with another person, including the parts that annoy you despite your love for him.
The Federal Reserve is going to keep interest rates near zero for the foreseeable future. That much is certain.
Guaranty Bank was closed by federal regulators Friday in the third largest bank failure this year bringing the total number of failures to 81 in 2009.
Don't look now, but your local bank branch might be disappearing.
Executives from some banks propped up by federal funds used company jets for personal purposes, according to a report published Friday.
Five police officers brutally kicked and beat an unconscious suspect after a high-speed chase through Birmingham, Alabama, in an incident caught on camera and discovered a year later.
Gas prices jumped nearly a quarter in the past three weeks, but the trend is unlikely to continue, according to a survey published on Sunday.
The U.S. government isn't due to reveal the results of its stress tests on banks until Thursday, but leaked results are painting a troubling picture.
We'll have to wait until Thursday for the official results of the eagerly awaited stress tests on 19 of the nation's largest financial firms.
Powered by a gush of strong earnings reports, the Dow has finally ballooned above 10,000 again. But could this most recent leg of the market rally turn out to be a cruel hoax?
Finding a boyfriend is only the beginning when it comes to relationship woes. Once you're in one, you have to deal with another person, including the parts that annoy you despite your love for him.
The Federal Reserve is going to keep interest rates near zero for the foreseeable future. That much is certain.
Guaranty Bank was closed by federal regulators Friday in the third largest bank failure this year bringing the total number of failures to 81 in 2009.
Don't look now, but your local bank branch might be disappearing.
Executives from some banks propped up by federal funds used company jets for personal purposes, according to a report published Friday.
Five police officers brutally kicked and beat an unconscious suspect after a high-speed chase through Birmingham, Alabama, in an incident caught on camera and discovered a year later.
Gas prices jumped nearly a quarter in the past three weeks, but the trend is unlikely to continue, according to a survey published on Sunday.
The U.S. government isn't due to reveal the results of its stress tests on banks until Thursday, but leaked results are painting a troubling picture.
We'll have to wait until Thursday for the official results of the eagerly awaited stress tests on 19 of the nation's largest financial firms.
Investors pulled their money out of the stock market in droves following last fall's credit market collapse. But they may be slowly putting cash back to work now that stocks are in the midst of an explosive rally.
The real estate market is so awful that buyers are now scooping up homes for as little as $1,000.
It looks like the government isn't going to let Citigroup fail. But that wasn't enough to save the market Monday.
It should have been an ugly morning for the markets.
It is not just the big guys in banking that are taking a hit in this recession. Regional banks across the nation are also posting dismal results for the fourth quarter.
A man who authorities say defrauded investors and then tried to fake his own death by deliberately crashing his plane in the Florida Panhandle pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of intentionally destroying an aircraft and faking a distress call.
We'll do some periodic baggies off the Australian Open. Also, I'm considering "live blogging" the final, so stay tuned for details.
An Indiana judge Monday froze the assets of Marcus Schrenker, a suburban Indianapolis financial manager who authorities say tried to fake his own death by crashing his private plane into a Florida swamp.
A man whose financial management business is under investigation faked a life-or-death emergency in his private aircraft before secretly parachuting out and letting his plane crash in the Florida panhandle, authorities said Monday.
From the time he first emerged as a civil rights leader, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. lived with the threat of death, but he never wavered in his commitment to non-violence.
When James Earl Ray bought a white Mustang in the summer of 1967, he stood on a streetcorner in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, and pulled the cash out of his shirt pocket, $2,000 in all.
The FBI on Monday arrested the mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, on federal charges including conspiracy, bribery, fraud, money laundering and filing false income tax returns.
When 6-2 Florida State visits 6-2 Maryland on Nov. 22, there's a decent chance the game could decide the ACC's Atlantic Division. Unfortunately for the 'Noles, they may be without one of their top defensive players.
When the U.S. government starts cutting checks to troubled financial institutions, expect many of the nation's struggling regional banks to be first in line.
Sen. John McCain said Monday that Rep. John Lewis' controversial remarks were "so disturbing" that they "stopped me in my tracks."
With sales slow and credit almost nonexistent, small businesses - the country's largest employer - face painful job cutbacks.
The backlash against the bailout worked. The House rejected the controversial $700 billion rescue plan on Monday.
Americans are very angry about the proposed bailout of the banking sector and Wall Street...and with good reason.
Beth Bastian, a Web site project designer and mother of three in Los Angeles, is facing down soaring food costs and finding creative ways to put breakfast on the table.
The average price of gas dropped just barely under $4 a gallon for the first time since the beginning of June, according to a national survey released Sunday.
With the latest earnings season in the rearview mirror for most of the nation's banks, investors can breathe a little easier.
Oil's above $143 a barrel. The dollar continues to weaken. Second quarter earnings, especially in the financial sector, are going to stink. And the employment report for June, due out this Thursday, is expected to show another month of job losses.
The former American Idol winner weds Surata Zuri McCants in Alabama
The second-season Idol champ plans to tie the knot in big style Saturday in Alabama, a source tells PEOPLE
After months of investigation, an Alabama man faces extradition to Australia in his wife's drowning
"You ready?" Cas Whitehead, a driver instructor for the Porsche Driving School at Barber Motorsports Park outside of Birmingham, Ala., asked me on a recent afternoon. "Hold on."
In a stinging passage from a "Letter from Birmingham City Jail," the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. condemned white churches for rejecting his pleas for support.
A fourth man was charged Tuesday with murder in the shooting death of University of Memphis football player Taylor Bradford, Memphis police said.
In the shadow of behemoths such as Pfizer, hundreds of small companies make thousands of long-established drugs that the majors no longer bother with. Now the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is stepping up a campaign to put these medications through its costly new-drug approval process. And that could place the little guys in peril. Deborah Autor, director of the FDA's office of compliance, says the agency is promoting consumer safety. "People think drugs are safe because they have been around, but they aren't," she says.
A U.S. military plane with three U.S. senators and a U.S. House member onboard came under rocket fire while leaving Baghdad, Iraq, for Amman, Jordan, Thursday night and had to take evasive maneuvers.
Los Angeles ranks as the smoggiest city in the United States, according to an annual report card released Tuesday by the American Lung Association. It leads the nation in all three major air pollution categories, short-term particle pollution, year-round particle pollution and ozone pollution.
When gas prices soared above $3 per gallon last summer, road trips became about as value- conscious as a first-class plane ride. Now that prices at the pump have dropped, toss your sticks in the trunk and hit the open road on these four perfect drives, each combining great value courses with a trophy- course finale.
Rail cars that caught fire after a freight train crash near Louisville, Kentucky, were being allowed to burn throughout the night to destroy hazardous materials inside them, authorities announced Tuesday evening.
CNN.com readers shared powerful stories of sickness and survival in response to a commentary written by Lance Armstrong, one of cycling's all-time greats and possibly the world's best known cancer survivor.
During the 25 years of the AIDS epidemic, much of the focus has been on developing a vaccine or treatment, and prevention has sometimes seemed to take a back seat. But this week at the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto, the tables are turning.
Calling all future Taylor Hickses, Kelly Clarksons, Fantasias, Ruben Studdards and Carrie Underwoods:
Gasoline prices climbed 10.73 cents over the past two weeks, to an average of $3.00 per gallon for self-serve regular, a national survey said Sunday.
Police have found the 34-year-old lawyer who was abducted from downtown Birmingham, Alabama, on Wednesday, police said.
An Alabama church was destroyed early Saturday in a fire that authorities are calling suspicious.
An Alabama biotech said it hopes to provide the U.S. government with a bird flu anti-viral as early as next year, providing more competition to Roche's Tamiflu and easing concerns about drug supply.
One of the highlights of the year for Brad Martin is surely the golf outing, named after him, that occurs every autumn in Birmingham, Ala. The express purpose of the Brad Martin Golf Invitational, ...
Riding the 7:40 a.m. train from Luton to King's Cross, nothing seemed amiss.
An Aruban judge, the father of a 17-year-old suspect in the disappearance of an Alabama teenager, also has been arrested in the case, the island's police commissioner said Thursday.
With oil creeping above $61 a barrel to another record high, there's a debate raging in the energy markets over whether crude will soar above $100 or take a tumble as the energy bubble bursts.
When Eric Rudolph stood before two federal judges Wednesday and confessed his guilt in a series of bombings in Atlanta, Georgia, and Birmingham, Alabama, it wasn't the last chapter in this strange story.
Serial bombing suspect Eric Rudolph has agreed to plead guilty to all charges against him, sources tell CNN.
Nearly two years after his capture and weeks before he was to go on trial on charges of bombing a Birmingham, Alabama, women's clinic, Eric Robert Rudolph has pleaded guilty to charges related to that blast and three other attacks.
I'm trying to decide whether I should roll the money in my old 401(k) account into the 401(k) plan offered by my new employer or roll it into an IRA rollover account with a mutual fund or investment firm. What factors should I consider in making this decision?
Ken Lay, the ex-Enron CEO facing felony charges over the energy giant's collapse, thinks prosecutors are attacking his wife to pressure him.
The words "bar and grill" don't often inspire notions of fine dining. But Highlands Bar and Grill might be that exception that proves the rule. A Birmingham institution celebrating its 20th anniver...
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You're doing all you can to save for retirement--and the government keeps nibbling away at it. The much ballyhooed new tax laws ease some of that frustration by allowing would-be retirees to stash ...
In 1938, Morris Sher opened up a furniture store in Birmingham, Ala., so he could sell couches to people who had poor credit ratings and were shunned by other retailers. For 50 years, Sher helped h...
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In My May 10 column, "Boomers: You Need an Estate Plan," prompted a flurry of questions from readers who don't have the stereotypical spouse, 2.3 kids, and dog. "How would you address estate planni...
Who are these day traders that Wall Streeters keep complaining about?
Julie Norton has been getting all kinds of beer delivered to her home in Washington, D.C. -- ''ambers, stouts, bocks,'' she says, from microbreweries as far away as Birmingham, Alabama, New Orleans...
Good news: A sharp rebound in confidence marks FORTUNE's latest quarterly survey of the business mood. Half the 265 executives who responded say they are optimistic that the economy can sustain gro...
The economy will muddle through its daunting problems and continue to expand. That's the view of 200 executives from large companies and small who responded to FORTUNE's latest quarterly survey of ...
Even if you've always managed your own money -- and done just fine -- the need for professional help often arises when your life takes a major turn. Your children start eyeing college catalogues; y...
Received any slick, seductive credit-card offers lately? If not, you're one of the few. Card issuers are now accelerating a promotion blitz to sign up new customers, with enticing come-ons like ''N...
''Buying Treasuries from the Factory'' ((December 1988)) omitted one significant disadvantage. Because the Federal Reserve requires a certified check, an investor loses the opportunity to earn inte...
Independence hasn't had such a run since 1776. The number of Americans ages 25 to 34 who live alone grew by 332% between 1970 and 1987, and single adults now account for nearly one out of every fou...
Perhaps you are suffering from a bleeding checking account. Or maybe you have mortgage migraines, complicated by stock market vertigo. Or maybe your only problem is a mild case of life insurance bl...
For one group of investors, Black Monday was the start of a buying spree. Known as contrarians, these professionals pride themselves on ''buying straw hats in winter'' -- acquiring stocks that are ...
ROBERT S. MCINTYRE, 37, tax director of Citizens for Tax Justice, a tax-reform lobbying group, philosophically accepting the special-interest perks peppered through the Senate tax bill: ''Those are...
BEVERAGES HAVE COME in cans for more than 50 years, but in all that time the only major improvement in consumer convenience has been the pop-top, introduced in 1962. If the industry can digest a bi...
IN A BACK SHOP at Steel of West Virginia's plant in Huntington, members of the United Steelworkers of America spend spare moments building an electromagnetic hoist for stacking newly made steel bea...
BUSINESS looks lean again: it slashed last summer's bulge in inventory accumulation by nearly two-thirds in the fall. Now there's almost no fat left, according to the 200 executives responding to F...
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