Cayuga County's June unemployment rate was a full percentage point above prior-year levels, and it reached its highest point for the month since 2003, according to the latest state Department of Labor job market data. [read more]

THE Bank of England’s dilemma over runaway inflation and slowing economic growth will be laid bare on Wednesday when minutes of the latest interest rate meeting are published. [read more]

INFLATION is expected to have remained high in the June quarter, but economists say another annual figure above 4 per cent is unlikely to force the central bank towards another interest rate rise. [read more]

Annual percentage rates for select major credit card categories were mixed to lower this week, as [read more]

July 18 (Bloomberg) -- Mexico's peso reached its strongest in five years after the central bank boosted borrowing costs for a second time this year in a bid to curb the highest inflation rate in more than three years. [read more]

July 18 (Bloomberg) -- Mexico's central bank raised its benchmark interest rate for the second straight month to curb the highest inflation rate in more than three years. [read more]

Dear Terry, My girlfriend drives a 2005 Jeep Wrangler that eats gas like no other -- she gets 14 miles per gallon in the city and 18 mpg on the highway. She currently owes $20,000 with a 16 percent annual percentage rate and now wants to sell her vehicle or trade it in for a Toyota Prius. [read more]

North Carolina hasn't had a job market this bad in more than four years. Unemployment rose to 6 percent last month from 5.9 percent in May, according to figures released Friday by the N.C. Employment Security Commission. In South Carolina, the unemployment rate dipped to 6.2 percent in June from 6.5 percent in May. In North Carolina, it was the sixth consecutive monthly increase and the highest ... [read more]

AUSTIN, Texas----Annual percentage rates for select major credit card categories were mixed to lower this week, as the Federal Reserve is expected to leave interest rates unchanged for the remainder of 2008 amid challenges posed by both economic weakness and inflation. [read more]

July 18 (Bloomberg) -- Mexico's central bank raised its benchmark interest rate for the second straight month to curb the highest inflation rate in more than three years amid higher food and energy prices. [read more]

Bolivian President Evo Morales is asking coca farmers to supplement their crops with rice and corn as a way of holding down coca production while helping to feed South America's poorest country  [read more]

July 16 (Bloomberg) -- American International Group Inc. , PMI Canada and other mortgage insurers are considering ways to keep offering 40-year mortgages and zero-down payment loans after the Canadian government tightened mortgage lending rules. [read more]

Soaring food prices may achieve what the United States has spent millions of dollars trying to do: persuade Bolivian farmers to sow their fields with less potent crops than cocaine's raw ingredient. [read more]

Rising grain prices and food shortages may yet achieve what the United States has spent millions of dollars trying to do: persuade Bolivian farmers to raise crops other than coca, cocaine's raw ingredient. [read more]

Sharply falling housing prices have become an unavoidable fact of life this year, but nowhere in San Diego County has the battered real estate market had more of a striking impact than in a number of central and south county neighborhoods where subprime lending was rampant. [read more]

Sun, Jul 20, 2008 (8:45 a.m.) Soaring food prices may achieve what the United States has spent millions of dollars trying to do: persuade Bolivian farmers to sow their fields with less potent crops than cocaine's raw ingredient. [read more]

  CHAMPAIGN – It's a shaky time for the financial sector, with IndyMac Bank being taken over by the federal government and regulators taking extra steps to help prop up mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Stock prices have plummeted for many banks across the country, including Cleveland-based National City, which has four branches in Champaign-Urbana. And a few banks – but only a ... [read more]

About two decades ago, a financial planner told me I'd need about $250,000 to pay for my kids' education. I thought he was nuts. He was. In the end, it's costing more. [read more]

I s playing Monopoly too time-consuming?  [read more]

KIDS ROMPING on lawns and workers trimming hedges belie the gloom that hovers over the sprawling Parkhaven complex bordering Miwok Park in northwestern Novato. [read more]