The agency imposed a one-time $15 billion increase in insurance premiums on the nation’s 8,300 banks.

The investment firm reported a loss but its message that it was better off than banks may be striking a chord with investors.

General Electric will cut its dividend to 10 cents a share in the third quarter. The move will save $9 billion a year.

Newspaper owners say that the Yahoo partnership is one of the only bright spots in an otherwise horrible advertising market.

Susan Harmsworth, chief of Espa, a luxury spa company with operations in 55 countries, has 20 projects that are on hold.

A former executive of the health care financing company, who was a crucial witness in a $1.9 billion corporate fraud case, was sentenced to two years in prison.

Two banks were seized including the Heritage Community Bank of Glenwood, Ill., and Security Savings Bank of Henderson, Nev.

With newsrooms cutting costs, registrations were sharply down.

Mike Oreskes and John Daniszewski will succeed the senior managing editor, Mike Silverman, who is about to retire.

The decision is a victory for the chain’s fountain-drink supplier, the Coca-Cola Company.

The closures, which will reduce the company’s chicken production roughly 10 percent, are intended to save $110 million a year as part of a reorganization.

A.I.G. has the global financial system by the throat, leaving the government little choice but to throw money at it.

The budget proposals seek to reverse the rapid increase in economic inequality over the last 30 years.

The dividend cut is aimed at protecting the company’s top AAA credit rating during the severe recession.

Citigroup’s plan to turn over more of the company to the government and G. E.’s decision to cut its dividend weighed on investors.

The economy shrank at an annual rate of 6.2 percent last quarter, much more than earlier estimates.

Three global development banks pledge aid in the form of equity and debt finance, credit lines and political risk insurance.

Declining values at the private equity firm’s portfolio companies and real estate investments took their toll.

Newspapers, already reeling from advertising revenue losses, are wary of Google’s latest move.

Nearly every country with published economic data for January experienced a rapid fall in exports.