THE EXETER CONSULTING GROUP

The journalist Roger Lowenstein’s anecdotes and analysis cover the lead-up to the financial meltdown and the frantic steps to solve it.

Greece hopes to raise between $5 billion and $10 billion with a global bond in April or the beginning of May.

Politicians seeking budget cuts are confronting powerful unions in a major assault on municipal employees—cops, firefighters, librarians, and more—who represent 15% of the U.S. work force.

Politicians seeking budget cuts are confronting powerful unions in a major assault on municipal employees—cops, firefighters, librarians, and more—who represent 15% of the U.S. work force.

The Australian miner rejects $3 billion takeover approach, says it plans to press on instead with its planned takeover of Australia’s Gloucester Coal.

The strains that appeared in January with the revelation that Greece had been hiding its true deficit continued to show Wednesday.

Google says it has identified cyber attacks aimed at silencing critics of a Chinese-backed bauxite mining project in Vietnam.

Though the 0.6 percent increase in new orders topped expectations, it was the smallest rise since August 2009.

The decision is aimed at encouraging competition in the contract for refueling jets that critics say unfairly favors Boeing.

International negotiations to limit government funding for jetliner exports are facing a snag over how the rules will be applied to upstart jet makers, potentially sparking subsidy wars.

Ivy Asset Management, which BNY Mellon Asset Management is closing, is under investigation for advice it allegedly gave related to investing with Bernard Madoff, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Security engineers at Google and McAfee said malicious software was used to spy on government critics in Vietnam in what analysts suspect is an effort by Hanoi to quash online dissent.

France’s economy minister gave the proposal, which would raise more than $1.3 billion a year, a cautious thumbs-up.

Several French publishing houses intend to bring a joint copyright infringement suit against Google, publishing executives said this week.

Amazon reached deals with Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins that allow the two publishers to set their own prices for e-books, just days before the arrival of new competition from Apple’s iPad tablet device.