The nation's mortgage applications for home purchasing and refinancing increased last week as interest rates hit a new low, a glimmer of hope for a housing market that has failed to find footing in the absence of government support.

U.S. mortgage applications for home purchasing and refinancing increased last week as interest rates hit a new low, a glimmer of hope for a housing market that has failed to find footing in the absence of government support

EAGLE-VAIL, Colorado - Stan Koenig can't wait to move back home. Koenig moved into the Riverview apartments in Eagle-Vail about 20 years ago, when the complex was still almost new. Over years, countless tenants have come and gone, and the apartments slowly started to look their age and then some. Over the last several years, most of the apartments' interiors were renovated as tenants moved out ...

The ReStore is run by the Greater Worcester Habitat for Humanity. It sells slightly used and sometimes brand new construction materials donated by homeowners, retailers and contractors.

If we were going by the promise of event risk alone, we would have been led to believe that the US dollar was guaranteed volatility Tuesday. However, as we have seen time and again over the past few months, economic data and exogenous developments are only as effective in moving the market so far as they can stimulus interest in dominant fundamental drivers.

Its a warm spring morning and a dozen women are working hard to complete the frame of a ranch-style house in Boonsboro.

Soon after becoming the top executive at Home Depot in 2007, Frank Blake read to employees on a live TV broadcast from a copy of "Built from Scratch," the company biography written by founders Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank.

Following are the minutes of the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee meeting that concluded on August 10.

We'll publish the complete Fed minutes once they're published on the Fed site, but based on CNBC's report, it sounds like a notable number of Fed governors expressed interest in doing more to stimulate.

Photo By ADAM NORTHAM The elevated water tank at Linbrook Business Park looks out over western Brookhaven from a completed and paid-for industrial site.

Wall Street erased initial losses and moved higher on Tuesday as a string of economic data helped relieve investor anxiety about the strength of the economic recovery.

Wall Street erased initial gains and moved higher on Tuesday as a string of economic data helped relieve investor anxiety about the strength of the economic recovery.

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These days, there's an increased awareness that federal aid has to move faster — that the need for additional resources like manpower and money should be anticipated before the storm, not days later. But Charleston Mayor Joe Riley and other municipal leaders are still focused on lasting reform. by Greg Hambrick When it came time to survey the devastation of Hurricane Katrina five years ago ...

It's the economy, stupid. But even the smart guys on the speakers list at the Heavy Duty Manufacturers Association's Commercial Vehicle Outlook 2010, held in Dallas Aug. 25-26, didn't know exactly where it's headed, though they tried hard to guestimate its puzzling course.

A surprise bounce in retail sales and building approvals has boosted optimism about Australia's economy on financial markets.

Following a run of three consecutive daily declines against its benchmark euro counterpart through Friday, the US dollar snapped is losing streak with a steady and encouraging rally.

China’s stock-index futures fell, signaling the benchmark index may drop for the first time in four days, as smaller-than-estimated growth in personal incomes in the U.S. heightened concern the economic recovery may falter.

For years, Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce spokeswoman Cara Roberts was used to spreading good news to the public, as chamber membership boomed along with the rest of Las Vegas. She never imagined having to one day tell the press about the layoff of a dozen of her co-workers.