CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - After nearly seven years of getting strangers to rent cars for a few hours at a time, Zipcar Inc. said it believes it has the know-how to leap beyond its customer base of tech-savvy 20- and 30-somethings in big U.S. cities.

The car-sharing service announced Tuesday that it's revamping its reservation and fleet management systems - moves Zipcar is taking to support expa...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. — Richard F. Scruggs, one of the country’s most successful trial lawyers, made his first fortune in a case that hit close to home. He sued asbestos makers on behalf of workers at the shipyard in his hometown, Pascagoula, who had developed lung diseases. He made his second fortune with lawsuits against the tobacco industry, coming up with a winning legal strategy ...

FDIC chairman Sheila C. Bair said in a prepared statement that Wal-Mart made a "wise choice."

"This decision will remove the controversy surrounding their intentions," Bair said. "They don't need an ILC to play an important role in expanding access to financial services, they can do so by partnering with banks and others. We look forward to working with Wal-Mart in meeting the need for l...

Rep. Barney Frank said federal money needs to help state catastrophe funds.

WASHINGTON - Florida lawmakers pushing for federal intervention in the troubled insurance market got a boost Thursday from the chairman of a key committee.

Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, Democratic chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, told reporters it is time to create a federal backstop...

To all those anti-war protesters out there: al Qaida says “Thank you for your support."

Come on, let's stop charging for everything in our world today because people don't have enough jobs these days. You say that our children need good snacks, fruits, vegetables for school and some of these children aren't even allowed out of their classrooms to have water.

I re...

On a recent Friday night, workers from the Polk County Health Department gathered at the Placita Mexico bodega on Rifle Range Road here. Their objective: convince Hispanic customers - mostly migrant workers - to get an HIV test.

As the number of Hispanics diagnosed with HIV or AIDS increases in Polk County, the Health Department is redoubling efforts to get the word out about testing.

Every spring, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) - the two so-called ugly sisters of modern finance - hold a series of confabs aimed at resolving their different mandates and examine progress. Following from the meeting last April, the two multilateral agencies commissioned an external report on Bank-Fund cooperation,...