economy

Worries over sovereign debt in U.S. and EU stoke investment disquietness

Shooting victim Gabrielle Giffords returns to Congress for the U.S. debt vote, tens of thousands of Somalis flee famine in Kenya

Washington doesn’t have to look far for examples of how to climb back from a downgrade

PM urges focus on “fundamentals,” not volatile stock markets

Last Friday, the Standard & Poor’s rating agency made history by ratcheting the U.S. credit rating down a notch from AAA to...

The Canadian stock market took such a dive this morning it went–literally–through the bottom of a Google Graph of the S&P/TSX...

US stocks take biggest plunge since financial crisis

Bruce Anderson considers the political possibilities of economic turmoil.

Investors wary of spreading debt crisis in Italy and Spain

StatsCan says lower gas, oil, and mining activity to blame