A nationwide crackdown on mortgage fraud that began in March has ensnared 18 Florida residents, whose charges were announced by federal authorities Thursday. ...more

June 20, 2008

It was April 2007, and two Bear Stearns hedge funs run by Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin were piling up losses in the subprime mortgage market. The men were panicking over an internal report showing their funds were tanking. ...more

June 20, 2008

Lehman Bros. Chief Executive Richard Fuld on Monday took the blame for the company's staggering second-quarter loss and said the investment bank was too slow in reacting to the credit crisis. ...more

June 17, 2008

Lehman Bros. Holdings on Monday confirmed fears on Wall Street that the credit crisis isn't quite over, and it left investors to wonder whether other major investment banks face the same set of risks. ...more

June 10, 2008

REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS The address shown is the property address listed by the buyer. Most of the sales took place during the past six weeks. This is not a complete list of real estate transactions. Sales are listed by city, in ascending value. ...more

June 1, 2008

Bear Stearns shareholders have approved JPMorgan Chase's buyout, ending the saga of the 85-year-old pillar of Wall Street that crumbled under the weight of its own wagers on high-risk mortgages. ...more

May 30, 2008

At dusk on New Year's Eve, Erika Gunderson got into a taxi in New York City and entered a digital-age mystery. ...more

February 3, 2008

Wall Street's five biggest firms are paying a record $39 billion in bonuses for 2007, a year when three of the companies suffered the worst quarterly losses in their history and shareholders lost more than $80 billion. ...more

January 18, 2008

Merrill Lynch & Co. on Thursday recorded its biggest quarterly loss since being founded 94 years ago after the world's largest brokerage took almost $15 billion worth of write-downs from bad subprime mortgage bets. ...more

January 18, 2008

Industry analysts are predicting a lackluster end to an already dismal year for automakers, likely the worst in nearly a decade. ...more

December 29, 2007