Economy

Fiscal cliff: Market sting may come sooner

5:49am: Lawmakers may wait until after the election before dealing with $7 trillion worth of tax hikes and spending cuts. But such prolonged uncertainty may prompt markets and businesses to act sooner. More

Reich: The 1 percent earn too much 

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich says the growth in income for the top 1 percent has limited purchasing power for the rest. Play

CNNMONEY - May 10 2012 4:54 PM ET
  • Postal Service's next deadline: Aug. 1

    Postal Service's next deadline: Aug. 1

    With a new plan averting many Postal Service closures this year, the next deadline for Congress to save the struggling agency is Aug. 1. After that it won't have enough cash to pay a retiree fund.

    CNNMONEY - May 18 2012 5:29 PM ET
  • Greek banks strain for cash

    Greek banks strain for cash

    Customers are making massive withdrawals from Greek banks and the European Central Bank has frozen lifeline loans - raising the risk the country will exit the eurozone.

    CNNMONEY - May 18 2012 6:53 AM ET
  • Vacation? No thanks, boss

    Vacation? No thanks, boss

    Unlike many other nations, the U.S. does not require companies to offer paid time off to workers. Americans who are offered vacation often don't take it.

    CNNMONEY - May 18 2012 5:48 AM ET
  • Paying companies to hire the unemployed

    Paying companies to hire the unemployed

    A Connecticut agency is raising money from private companies and citizens to place the long-term unemployed in subsidized jobs.

    CNNMONEY - May 18 2012 5:18 AM ET
  • Greece downgraded deeper into junk

    Greece downgraded deeper into junk

    Fitch downgrades Greek government debt and calls country's exit from eurozone 'probable' if pro-austerity coalition doesn't win in June vote; rest of eurozone's ratings at risk as well.

    CNNMONEY - May 17 2012 3:20 PM ET
  • Postal plants to shrink, 28,000 jobs at stake

    Postal plants to shrink, 28,000 jobs at stake

    While postal offices were spared, 48 postal plants will be consolidated this summer, affecting some 5,000 employees. By the end of 2014, some 229 plants will be consolidated and 28,000 jobs will be gone.

    CNNMONEY - May 17 2012 1:52 PM ET
  • JPMorgan's Dimon to testify in Senate

    JPMorgan's Dimon to testify in Senate

    JPMorgan's $2 billion trading loss has spurred a Senate panel to invite CEO Jamie Dimon to testify.

    CNNMONEY - May 17 2012 6:30 PM ET
  • Moody's downgrades Spanish regions

    Moody's downgrades Spanish regions

    Moody's downgrades four Spanish regions, two of them to junk.

    CNNMONEY - May 17 2012 2:41 PM ET
  • Senate confirms Obama's Fed nominees

    Senate confirms Obama's Fed nominees

    Lawyer and investment banker Jerome Powell and Harvard economics professor Jeremy Stein to take 14-year terms on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

    CNNMONEY - May 17 2012 12:51 PM ET
  • Gas price relief misses the West Coast

    Gas prices have been steadily falling in most of the nation, but West Coast drivers are still paying top dollar at the pump.

    CNNMONEY - May 17 2012 10:25 AM ET
 
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