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The United States should use public funds to shore up its financial system and calm recent market turmoil, Japan's financial services minister said in an interview published Monday.

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- J.P. Morgan Chase Co. was in talks on Sunday night for a deal that would quintuple its offer for Bear Stearns Companies Inc., in an effort to pacify angry Bear shareholders, according to a media report Monday.

I have a new listing on the market and it's generating a lot of excitement -- a few dozen visitors in the first week and a half it's been listed. As a result, I have not only seen clients in various shapes and sizes, I have also seen just about every style of buyer's broker imaginable. In a world where the listing is in play (and people don't necessarily know that they're going to be written about) I don't want to be too specific, but here are some composite impressions that might be helpful to buyers and buyer's brokers everywhere. more...read more

The federal reserve and the central banks of Europe and the U.K. may be considering a radical move to stabilize the financial markets: using taxpayer money to buy back high-risk subprime mortgage-backed securities -- those at the heart of the housing crisis.

Crude oil prices fell on the New York Mercantile Exchange Monday morning as speculators pulled away and financial worries seeped into the commodities markets.

Stocks headed toward a higher open Monday as investors grew upbeat over a report that Bear Stearns Cos. could fetch more money than the amount set in a buyout deal a week ago. Shares of Bear Stearns jumped more than 65 percent in premarket trading on a...

Toyota's Scion enthusiasts will have even more 'me time': a marketing campaign aimed at showing just how much their chosen vehicle reflects their personality.

Bloomberg - March 24 (Bloomberg) -- Taiwan's stocks and currency surgedafter Ma Ying-jeou won the presidential election, ending eightyears of Democratic Progressive Party rule, on pledges to rapidlyopen ties with China and improve the economy.

For months, Americans have been subjected to a sort of economic water torture _ a maddening drip of bad news about jobs, gas prices, sagging home values, creeping inflation, the slouching dollar and a stock market in bumpy descent. Then came Bear...

THE eyes of nervous City analysts will be on wall street today to gauge how the US markets behave after American dealers return from their Easter break.