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The finance minister said Beijing would sell bonds to supplement spending and help banks but did not detail how much. China's powerful Ministry of Finance said on Saturday that it [...]

Byline: WENDY STUECK; Staff British Columbia plans to launch an Indigenous loan-guarantee program backstopped by up to $1-billion in government funds, embracing a model already operating in Alberta, Ontario and [...]

Byline: Niha Masih and Grace Moon When Honduras switched allegiance from Taipei to Beijing last week, it put the diplomatic future of Taiwan, a self-governed democracy, in a more precarious [...]

Byline: NIALL McGEE; Staff The federal government is considering taking equity stakes and advancing loans to Canadian critical minerals companies, as it mulls following Quebec's lead in moving to a [...]

Byline: Jeff Stein and Rachel Siegel Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Friday defended his decision to end several emergency Federal Reserve lending programs, arguing the funding should be redirected toward [...]

RETAIL Walmart to Increase Pay of 165,000 Workers Walmart, the nation's largest private employer, said on Thursday that it was raising wages for 165,000 of its workers, as it revamps [...]

AUTOMOBILES G.M. Extends Production Suspension, Cuts Paychecks General Motors said on Thursday it would suspend production at its North American factories indefinitely, lay off 6,500 salaried employees and cut executive [...]

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin made the case to Republican senators on Tuesday for $1 trillion plan, including $250 billion for direct checks to Americans by the end of April. WASHINGTON [...]

AIRLINES Airline Industry Seeks Relief The lobbying group for the biggest airlines in the United States on Monday called on the government to provide the industry more than $50 billion [...]

Byline: Patrick Varine July 18--Delmont officials voted 5-1 to take out a 1-year, $30,000 loan to expand the borough's summer paving program. The program will include West Pittsburgh Street from [...]

With Venezuela on the edge of default, Russia has thrown it a life preserver. The Russian finance minister, Anton Siluanov, announced on Wednesday that the two countries had agreed to [...]

European leaders congratulated themselves last week for reaching an agreement to provide more loans to Greece and eventually ease the terms of the country's huge debt. But there is little [...]

ATHENS -- Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras faced anger and resistance on Tuesday from members of his own radical left political party, complicating his efforts to strike a deal this week [...]

International lenders are very close to wrapping up talks with Greece to unlock a further €8.1 billion in loans, though more efforts are required from Athens to overhaul its economy, [...]

TOKYO -- The new Japanese government is considering programs worth N433 billion this week to bolster businesses, including help for them in buying foreign companies, under a draft economic stimulus [...]

NASSAU, the Bahamas -- A brand new $35 million stadium opened here in the Bahamas a few weeks ago, a gift from the Chinese government. The tiny island nation of [...]

As the federal fiscal year ends, and with it the part of the stimulus program that finances some energy loans, the Energy Department issued $1.07 billion in loan guarantees on [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The International Monetary Fund urged the United States on Wednesday to raise the nation's borrowing limit, warning that inaction could lead to higher interest rates that would [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Energy Department plans to announce on Friday that it will provide a $150 million loan guarantee to a company in Massachusetts that has developed a radical new [...]

Byline: Brent Snavely, USA TODAY Fiat and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne said Thursday he is confident that institutional investors and banks will refinance Chrysler's loans so it can pay back [...]

DETROIT -- General Motors said on Thursday that it was withdrawing its application to borrow $14.4 billion from a pool of federal money intended to help automakers build more fuel-efficient [...]

Byline: David J. Lynch Investors will watch closely today as Greece tries to sell about $1.6 billion in short-term bonds. The debt offering represents an early test of market reaction [...]

The prime minister of Iceland said on Monday that her country was seeking the help of the United States to ensure that Britain and the Netherlands did not use a [...]

Over the next six months, the federal government plans to wind down many of its emergency programs for housing. Then it will become clear if the market can function on [...]

Byline: Laura Petrecca Today, President Obama will announce the latest initiative in his series of plans to spur growth, bolster hiring and free up credit for small businesses: a new [...]

The federal government will not lend $2 billion to USEC, the sole American-owned uranium enrichment company, the Energy Department said on Tuesday. The move casts doubt on the company's ability […]

Does the government have a plan? The federal government has responded to the financial crisis by creating an alphabet soup of programs reminiscent of the New Deal. There is the […]

President Obama's long-awaited plan to revive the banks could work if certain assumptions about the future are right. But there is not much, beyond faith, to believe those assumptions will […]

Byline: Alan M. Webber It started with Ralph Nader and Unsafe At Any Speed. Michael Moore made it funny with Roger & Me. Then recently, Thomas Friedman made it official [...]

The Ford Motor Company, battered by the weak economy and a shift in consumer preferences, announced more cost cuts on Friday and reported a third-quarter loss. Ford said it lost […]

General Motors said on Wednesday that its global sales fell 11.4 percent in the third quarter, the latest sign of the growing problems that have led it into merger talks […]

A proposed $25 billion federal loan program to help retool the American auto industry would speed the development of electric cars and other alternative-fuel vehicles, a Chrysler executive said Wednesday. […]