Mark Brooks

Word of a settlement came in a filing this week in U.S. District Court in Chicago. No details were disclosed. A judge is expected to formally dismiss the lawsuit Thursday.

Crude prices have been rising, along with the stock market, and investors appeared to take a break from both Thursday.

Panicos Demetriades said the Central Bank of Cyprus wants to eliminate these controls as soon as possible, but it has to first make sure that trust in the banks has recovered sufficiently.

The Republican-controlled House is moving to put U.S. bondholders and people on Social Security at the front of the line to be paid if the government hits its borrowing limit and is unable to meet all of its obligations.

Obama on Thursday was dropping in on Austin, Texas, and using that bustling state capital as a backdrop to talk about attracting jobs, providing skills training and ensuring that hard work begets a decent living.

Advocates say anger and ridicule expressed on social media forced the company to retreat Tuesday as word of the move to copyright the holiday spread.

Three judges on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday spoke positively about the benefits the plan would provide the world.

Under the agreement, Skilling's original sentence will be reduced to somewhere between 14 and 17.5 years.

A vote in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee that was set for Wednesday has been pushed back to May 16.

The Energy Department said oil supplies grew last week by 200,000 barrels to 395.5 million barrels, which is 4.2 percent above year-ago levels.

Coca-Cola also said Wednesday that it would support programs that encourage physical activity and no longer market to kids younger than 12.

After just two months in the Treasury job, there are signs Lew's practice is paying off. All the letters of Lew's last name could be made out in his signature on the annual report of the Financial Stability Council, which came out in late April.

Through 2017, all layers of the country's government face a shortfall of 13.2 billion euros ($17.3 billion) on their forecast revenues of 2.7 trillion euros, according to an official forecast. The previous projection was made in November.

The measure would allow employees who work more than 40 hours a week to save up their earned time off for use weeks or months later.

Mary Jo White defended the policy at a budget hearing Tuesday on Capitol Hill, saying it has enabled the government to quickly return money to investors without a trial.

It's the fourth such agreement inked by the Holy See as it seeks to improve its reputation in global financial circles following a series of scandals at its bank and a money laundering investigation launched by Rome prosecutors.

The biggest moves were in palladium, which lost more than 2 percent, and platinum, which lost nearly 2 percent. Both can trade as industrial metals, meaning they generally rise when investors feel hopeful about the economy.

That was the consensus at an annual Washington "fiscal summit" thrown by billionaire deficit hawk Pete Peterson, who's staked $1 billion of his fortune on a foundation aimed at raising public awareness of the dangers of the government's growing debt.

The directorship is chosen by consensus in a complex and secretive process, and the runner-up is expected to concede afterward.

An arrangement requiring Microsoft to pay Yahoo! a minimum amount per search on Yahoo!'s website expired March 31. That had raised concerns Yahoo might make less money from the Microsoft partnership.