A weaker dollar and better-than-expected data on the housing market sent investors moving back into stocks Monday after a three-day losing streak.

Home sales far exceeded expectations last month, surging to the highest level in two and a half years as first-time buyers rushed to take advantage of an expiring tax credit.

The international economy is still fragile to shocks despite recent improvements in financial markets, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund said Monday.

The government is financing its more than trillion-dollar-a-year borrowing with i.o.u.s on terms that seem too good to be true a happy situation that may not last much longer.

As the hours tick down to Black Friday, the most-hyped shopping day of the year, the big question is about safety more than spending after last year's trampling death at a Wal-Mart.

General Motors Co. on Monday asked European governments to help pay most of the $4.9 billion it needs to restructure its struggling European operations.

For the first time in a decade, more people paid their credit card bills on time in the third quarter this year than in the second quarter.

Congress' move to extend unemployment benefits for people out of work more than a year drew a heavy response from bewildered readers trying to figure out who is eligible. The Answer Desk.

Oil prices rose above $78 a barrel Monday as Iran's war games, aimed at protecting its nuclear plants, deepened tensions in the oil-rich region.

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