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House Speaker John Boehner hastily reworked his stalled emergency debt-limit bill Friday as Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid signaled he's pushing ahead with his own version.

The debtpocalypse is nigh. But, hey, at least we’re going to have NFL football.

The number of people seeking unemployment benefits dropped last week to the lowest level since early April, a sign the job market may be healing after a recent slump.

A timeline of how debt negotiations culminated into last-minute desperation for compromise.

Small-business owners’ optimism remains fixed at zero, which is neither optimistic nor pessimistic, as confidence regarding today’s financial climate couldn’t counterbalance worse expectations for future revenues and capital spending allocation, according to Wells Fargo & Co.’s third-quarter results from its Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index.

House Republican leaders have abruptly delayed a vote on a bill extending the government's debt limit and cutting federal spending.

Statistics from HighRoads’ latest industry survey on open enrollment reveals 71 percent of respondents conduct passive versus active enrollment practices, therefore enabling employees to automatically renew most of their own plans.

The American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries claims savings from changes to the tax treatment for retirement plan deferrals are incorrectly calculated, because they're based on inflated forecasts.