Finance

Treasuries fell for a fifth day, reversing earlier gains, before the U.S. government sells $64 billion of notes and bonds this week.

Investors are having a change of heart about U.S. consumer stocks, a sign their optimism about Americans' discretionary spending remains intact even after a January selloff.

A U.S. Senate committee report will reprimand Credit Suisse Group for helping American clients dodge taxes and will criticize the Justice Department for not pursuing offshore banks aggressively enough, according to two people with knowledge of the findings.

The extra yield U.S. corporate bonds offer compared with Treasuries approached a six-year low as investors speculated the economy will pick up after the North American winter ends.

President Obama will emphasize Democratic priorities in his next budget, dropping an offer to trim the growth of entitlement spending and proposing new tax limits for U.S.-based multi-national companies.

Employers are squeezing their workers' retirement savings, holding back on both the amount and the timing of 401(k) matching funds and dragging out vesting schedules. Taken together, these measures are making it more difficult to save for old age.

The proposal to let the U.S. Postal Service become a bank is a hard sell, but the idea has legs for political, legal and business reasons. Here are answers to the top questions about the provocative idea.

Regional bank executives keep trying to deflect calls for more cost cutting as they seek new revenue sources, and one of them -- BB&T's Kelly King -- seems to be losing his patience with such demands

Barclays Plc, the U.K.’s second- biggest bank by assets, will eliminate as many as 12,000 jobs this year, including more than 800 senior bankers, after fourth- quarter profit tumbled.

The Consumer Bankers Association believes banks and retailers need to have constructive conversations on security following last year's Target security breach.

New technology from Apple and others can help banks create appointments, share offers, crowdsource customer service and identify their best customers, all in real time.

Money market funds possess trillions of dollars of short-term institutional investor funds. Now the SEC's proposed rule change for the industry may give banks an opportunity to attract institutional depositors with cash management offerings, says one bank consultant.

A Georgetown law professor weighs in on a proposal to allow the U.S. Post Office to offer basic banking services. And the industry won't like what he has to say.

Obama's proposal might do some good -- not by helping workers, most of whom are unlikely to take advantage of it, but by spurring a discussion about how to fix a broken retirement system, write Bloomberg editors.

President Obama offered more Americans the chance to save for retirement through payroll deductions with a plan for new government-sponsored savings accounts.

Morgan Stanley turned more bearish on sovereign and corporate debt in emerging markets as declines in their currencies accelerated and funding costs increased.

Critical deficiencies in data gathering and reporting and measuring key risks persist across regulatory agencies, according to a professor at the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.

BlackRock Chief Executive Officer Laurence D. Fink warned there is "way too much optimism" in financial markets as he predicted repeats of the market turmoil that roiled investors this week.

Top bank executives are struggling to convince the world's business elite in Davos the financial system is safer, more than five years since it fell into crisis.

Pimco's Bill Gross said the firm plans to appoint more investment deputies in the coming weeks after the departure of Mohamed El-Erian.