Restaurants turn to Twitter in D.C. snowstorm

Restaurant owners looking to get the word out about their status during the weekend's snowstorm often found themselves turning to Twitter.
The micro-blogging site was bursting […]

Impairment charge pushes Bank of Florida loss to $108 million

Bank of Florida Corp. reported a net loss for the year ended Dec. 31 of $108.7 million, or $8.51 a share, compared with a net […]

Luke AFB: Flying into the future

Editor's note: This story is part of a special section included with the Jan. 22 print edition of the Phoenix Business Journal. For more on […]

Consumers score a win on credit card rules

Consumers scored a few unexpected victories in a set of Federal Reserve rules issued earlier this week.
The Fed issued 1,155 pages of rules Tuesday […]

Job growth returns — then fades

Employers once again slashed a substantial number jobs off their payrolls in December, according to a disappointing report from the government Friday. But there […]

Merkel Says She’ll Pursue Market Rules, Credit Supply in 2010

Chancellor Angela Merkel said her priorities for 2010 include winning support for further regulation of global financial markets and avoiding a credit squeeze for […]

Don’t mess with Texas: More Americans moving in

Americans, it seems, still have a love affair with the West. Texas and Wyoming were the big winners in the Census Bureau’s annual population […]

Senate OKs filing extension for jobless

Jobless Americans will soon get two more months to file for unemployment benefits and the COBRA health coverage subsidy, under a bill passed by […]

Smaller funds held up as a big failure

Motorists in Sydney and Melbourne woke up Nov. 5 to the prospect that Australians could one day be supporting Canadian pensioners each time they drive […]

Should FHA home loans be more expensive?

Should it be more expensive to get a mortgage insured by the Federal Housing Administration?
That is the question the House Financial Services Committee […]