NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- A record 1.35 million homes were in foreclosure in the third quarter, driving the foreclosure rate up to 2.97%, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Friday. That's a 76 ...

Census takers who visit homes to collect census information are called enumerators. They are told to use any person who owns or rents the housing unit as the reference person and to list the ...

The Detroit automaker's desperate bid to stave off bankruptcy is the latest chapter in a steady slide that began more than 20 years ago. (Fortune Magazine) -- Back in 2004, when it was still ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Imagine you're a mid-level executive living in Grayling, Mich., the "Canoe Capital of the World." You've received a job offer that pays twice as much in posh La Jolla ...

Charlotte initially made its mark as a transportation hub, but these days the banking industry reigns. Charlotte is the "second largest financial center in the nation, after New York," said Bob ...

California resident Gerilynn Aflleje was horrified when her 4-year-old Siberian Husky mix was killed by a local animal shelter over $180 in fees that she couldn't afford. Her dog, Chunk, had been ...

How would I mop up this mess? I have no magic cures, but I can offer a few modest suggestions. Profit Sharing If we taxpayers are going to subsidize Wall Street, as we're now doing, the Fed - or ...

Over the past several days, two major American companies found themselves facing public relations disasters. A fatal engine failure aboard a Southwest (LUV) flight left the airline scrambling to ...

KFC has issued a high-profile, humorous apology for its chicken shortages in the UK. The fast-food chain used a full-page ad in British newspapers to apologize for shutting down hundreds of ...

General Electric has been a piston of the American economic engine for 125 years. It pioneered the light bulb and the jet engine. It survived the Great Depression, the dot-com crash and the 2008 ...

Leaked documents published on Sunday suggest that the private estate of Queen Elizabeth II invested in offshore funds. Revelations from the leak, which has been dubbed the Paradise Papers, were ...

Just this June, Fortune Magazine announced a new milestone in its list of Fortune 500 female CEOs. The number of women CEOs listed had reached an all–time high: 32 in a single year. The ...