President Obama is on an economic bus tour through America's heartland , looking to build support at a time when voters were way down by high unemployment and reports pointing to more trouble ahead for the economy. NPR's Scott Horsley says the presid...
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann says her narrow win in the Iowa Straw Poll is the first step in a very long race. Bachmann made the rounds of the network news talk shows today, heralding her victory in the test vote. NPR's Tom Goldman reports. Represe...
From NPR News in Washington, Im Nora Raum. While in the final hour voting in Ames, Iowa in the Straw poll of what voters think of the Republican presidential candidates. This not bide in elections is viewed as early indicator of the candidates appear...
The US markets are reacting in part to more upbeat economic news this time in retail. The Commerce Department reports consumers spent more money in the last three months than previously thought. In July, retail sales rose 0.5%, and the government rev...
Optimism appears to be the order of the day in the US market with stocks higher in part on news that we may not be headed into a double-dip recession after all. At last check, the Dow was up 440 points, more than 4%, at 11,161, and the NASDAQ was up...
President Obama is meeting with Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke in the aftermath of the central bank's decision to offer extremely low interest rates for two more years, though the announcement caused the market to rally yesterday. By the day, all that wen...
Wall Street's reacting to news from the Federal Reserve today that interest rates would stay low to help economic growth pick up. At last check, we see the Dow up more than 400 points or 3.8% at 11,229; NASDAQ is up more than 5% or 125 points at 2,48...
A brutal day on Wall Street with US stocks plunging as Standard Poor's did another downgrade this time on mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The closing bell just a minute to go, the Dow closing down more than 600 points under the 11,000 mar...
A partisan standoff over a bill to fund the Federal Aviation Administration has the agency in partial shutdown and tens of thousands furloughed. Today at the White House, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood called on Congress to get back to Washingto...
A partisan standoff over a bill to fund the Federal Aviation Administration has the agency in partial shutdown and tens of thousands furloughed. Today at the White House, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood called on Congress to get back to Washingto...
A partisan standoff over a bill to fund the Federal Aviation Administration has the agency in partial shutdown and tens of thousands furloughed. Today at the White House, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood called on Congress to get back to Washingto...
A partisan standoff over a bill to fund the Federal Aviation Administration has the agency in partial shutdown and tens of thousands furloughed. Today at the White House, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood called on Congress to get back to Washingto...
A partisan standoff over a bill to fund the Federal Aviation Administration has the agency in partial shutdown and tens of thousands furloughed. Today at the White House, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood called on Congress to get back to Washingto...
US stocks are sharply lower before the close, all indexes dropping more than 2% in the wake of more disappointing economic news. The government finds that people scaled back their spending 0.2% in June while their incomes grew by the smallest amount...
The debt-ceiling agreement President Obama reached with congressional leaders over the weekend is coming under debate in the US House. Speaker John Boehner says he remains opposed to any tax hikes to help balance the federal budget. We've worked with...
