Financial Services

A list of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack victims from data compiled by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. The overall death toll from the attacks stands at 2,977 -- including 2,753 killed as a result of the attacks at the World Trade Center, 184...

With FedEx announcing earlier this year it was dropping its title sponsorship of the Orange Bowl college football game after 21 years ??? marking the longest reign as title sponsor of a BCS game ??? ESPN has been in negotiations......

The Inland Empire of Southern California, encompassing Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, has often been considered among the hardest hit by the economic slowdown. But the inland areas of the San Francisco area have it just as bad. Families flocked......

Check out which insurers have the most policies in your county, their contact information and a comparison of their rates for two particular types of homes at the state's Shop and Compare Rates website, shopandcomparerates.com. Try the state's free...

On May 14th, 2010, the president of Capitol Metro Financial Services bought a newly built house at 5219 Sweet Meadow Lane in Clarksville, Md., for $1,500,000 from James H. Selfridge Builders Inc. Darius Bakhtiar, president of Capital Metro, has worked in...

My colleague Mike McGough's skeptical post about the USA Today poll on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan reminded me of a survey released Thursday by GfK Financial Services, a New York firm that does research for the financial industry. The headline on...

Auto leasing, a casualty of the economic crisis, is making a comeback. So far this year, almost one in five vehicles, 19 percent, are leased rather than purchased, according to figures from J.D. Power & Associates. In fact, the number of lease deals...

The U.S. service sector grew in January for the first time since September but is still lagging behind the manufacturing industries, according to a report released Wednesday. A gauge of performance in non-manufacturing businesses reached 50.5 from 49.8,...

This post corrects an earlier version There can be few institutions more despised as 2010 begins than big U.S. banks, but what can the average person do about it? The answer, according to Huffington Post website founder Arianna Huffington and......

by Mark Silva Republicans voted against the economic stimulus in the House. They voted against the health-care overhaul in the House. Most of them voted against the "cap and trade'' energy bill in the House, though the handful of Republicans......

Could the controversial appraisal system imposed nationwide by mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in May -- and now tied to lowball property valuations, busted home sale transactions and higher fees to consumers -- be on its way out? It just...

Sony saw sales drop nearly across the board in its fiscal second quarter as the consumer electronics and media giant continued to struggle with a withering global economy. As shoppers around the world cut back on buying televisions, cameras and computers,...