Two-thirds of boomers’ daughters say they are providing some sort of financial support to their parents, up from 48 percent in 2007, when the initial…
Customers of Spanish banks still have reason to worry about the solvency of their banks — and their country — making it reasonable for them…
By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM The bleak portrait of the financial health of American families that the Federal Reserve published Monday shows that the impact of the economic…
By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM WASHINGTON — The recent financial crisis left the median American family in 2010 with no more wealth than they had in the…
… while the latest recession was particularly deep, the recovery in private-sector employment, once it finally started, has not been particularly slow by recent historical…
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, said Thursday that the Fed remained relatively optimistic about the health of the domestic economy, and…
PARIS — People in the United States and Europe are increasingly pessimistic about their financial prospects for retirement, as cash-strapped governments face pressure to cut…
PARIS — Spain carried out a successful bond auction Thursday under intense scrutiny, even as expectations are growing that Madrid will soon ask other European…
LONDON — The Bank of England decided Thursday to keep its benchmark interest rate unchanged at a record low as the British economy struggles to…
WASHINGTON — Three members of the Federal Reserve’s policy-making committee indicated in separate speeches Wednesday that recent economic data, while troubling, does not yet justify…