Less than three hours after Microsoft trumpeted a deal with Twitter for its Bing search engine, Google announced it would also track tweets. Neither compan disclosed what they're paying Titter for the privilege.

LaBranche & Co., a stock-exchange trading firm, said Tuesday that it lost more in the third quarter than it did a year earlier as it earned far fewer fees.

Arlington Asset Investment Corp. today announced that the Company and one of its wholly owned subsidiaries, FBR Securities Investment HY, LLC, plan to offer 12,830,450 shares of common stock of FBR Capital Markets Corporation in an underwritten public offering.

Because of his notoriety, there was speculation before he was sent to federal prison that convicted Ponzi scammer Bernard Madoff might be at risk of personal harm from other inmates once behind bars. But his life so far doesn't sound hellish, at least not by prison standards.

Fed chief Ben Bernanke called for the United States to whittle down its record-high budget deficits and for countries like China to get their consumers to spend more.

Is anybody out there hiring? Seriously. I'm not looking for a job but I'd like to know if any major corporations are actually looking to boost their headcount anytime soon. Do I hear crickets?

We explore education's role in improving the allocation of labor between China's agricultural and nonagricultural sectors and measure the portion of China's recent growth attributable to this channel. Building from micro-level estimates, we find that education's impact on labor reallocation between sectors accounts for about 9 percent of Chinese growth, whereas its impact on within-sector human capital growth explains only 2 percent. Our findings suggest that, when frictions cause large productivity gaps across sectors and returns to education are greater in higher-productivity sectors, education policy may be a useful tool for increasing efficiency.

Without any experience in automaking or government, Steven Rattner left his Wall Street perch to wade into the largest restructuring in American history. The scale and speed of the rescue raised many questions, inspiring Rattner to write this account of a defining moment in capitalism.

Yahoo Inc.'s third-quarter profit more than tripled even though the Internet company's quarterly revenue fell in the double digits for the third consecutive time.

The Obama administration is unveiling a new program to provide support to state and local housing agencies to provide help to thousands of home buyers and renters.

The Obama administration will soon order the nation's biggest bailed-out companies to drastically cut pay packages for their top executives, according to several reports published Wednesday.

ST. LOUIS----Stifel Financial Corp. announced today that its principal operating subsidiary, Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated , successfully completed the acquisition of 56 branches from UBS Financial Services Inc. .

A government watchdog said the $700 billion bailout played a major role in rescuing the economy but also engenderedd distrust because of secrecy and confusion surrounding the program.

Home prices are forecast to plumment over the next two years. These 7 cities -- including Seattle -- are bucking the trend.

Speech at the Exchequer Club, Washington, D.C.

Arlington Asset Investment Corp. said Tuesday it will sell 12.8 million shares of FBR Capital Markets in a public offering.

Growing numbers of Americans who have lost houses to foreclosure are landing in homeless shelters, according to social service groups and a recent report by a coalition of housing advocates.

Speech at the National Association for Business Economics, St. Louis, Missouri

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency will host workshops for national community bank directors in Phoenix at the Wyndham Phoenix, November 17-18, 2009.

Government jobs data are only estimates. But the "official" numbers don't include everyone who wants and needs a fulltime paycheck. The Answer Desk.