Mark Brooks

Gold for delivery in August fell $32.80 to settle at $1,383 an ounce Friday, down 2 percent.

The IMF says the 2-year loan will support an economic reform program in the country and help promote growth.

The Houston-based company said Friday in its weekly report that 1,406 rigs were exploring for oil and 354 for gas. Five were listed as miscellaneous.

Whole Foods' policy says all English-speaking workers must speak English to customers and other employees while on the clock, unless the customer speaks another language.

Andrew MacDougall said Friday that while the two sides have been negotiating for quite a while, Canada has not reached an agreement it is comfortable with.

IRS officials have said repeatedly that the targeting was initiated by front-line agents in the Cincinnati office and was stopped once senior officials in Washington found out.

The high bid on the eBay auction Friday morning was $775,100, but the biggest bids often aren't made until just before the end, which was scheduled for 9:30 p.m. CDT.

The Greek Statistical Authority reported the revised figure Friday, following its May 15 estimate of a 5.3 percent contraction.

Statistics Canada said Friday that the massive gain dropped the unemployment rate one-tenth of a point to 7.1 percent.

Olli Rehn's unusually blunt outburst on Friday came two days after the Washington-based IMF issued a report acknowledging "notable failures" in handling Greece's 240 billion euro ($310 billion) bailout, implicitly blaming some of them on its European partners.

In morning trading in New York, benchmark oil for July delivery was down 30 cents to $94.46 a barrel. Oil rose as high as $95.34 a barrel earlier.

Obama's efforts to press Xi to halt China's alleged hacking against the U.S. could be overshadowed by revelations that Obama's own administration has been secretly seizing phone records from millions of Americans.

The official, Faris Fink, said spending at the $4.1 million gathering should have been more closely scrutinized, and that new rules would prevent such a conference today.

Gold for August delivery rose $17.30 to settle at $14.15.80 an ounce. July silver gained 23.5 cents to $22.71 an ounce.

The European Commission, executive arm of the 27-country European Union, Thursday firmly rejected a report from the International Monetary Fund on the Greek bailout, adding that it "fundamentally disagrees" with some of its findings.

The Federal Reserve says U.S. household wealth jumped $3 trillion to $70.3 trillion in the January-March quarter this year.

The Senate on Thursday was scheduled to next take up Democrats' proposal that would extend current interest rates on new subsidized Stafford loans for the next two years at 3.4 percent.

Acting Commissioner Danny Werfel says in his prepared remarks that it's a challenging time for the IRS.

Eight times a year, the Federal Reserve issues the Beige Book, a snapshot of business conditions in each of the Fed's 12 regional bank districts.

The SEC was to vote Wednesday to advance two plans that are intended to better inform investors and protect the industry from risks that surfaced at the height of the 2008 financial crisis.