By John Shaw

WASHINGTON (MNI) - House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer Tuesday said the House will pass a 30 day stop-gap spending bill this week as a way

By Heather Scott

WASHINGTON (MNI) - Monetary policymakers do not hold the "smoking gun" that caused the current financial crisis, but did accommodate a bubble and could have heeded warning signs earlier, the International Monetary Fund said in a report published Tuesday.

By John Shaw

WASHINGTON (MNI) - The Senate Finance Committee began Tuesday

WASHINGTON (MNI) - The following is the text of the weekly retail sales report released by Johnson Redbook Tuesday, for the month-to-date through the week ended September 19:

The Johnson Redbook Retail Sales Index was down 2.6% in the third week of September following a 1.9% drop prior week. Month-to-date, September was down 2.3% compared to September of last year (relative to

By Courtney Tower

OTTTAWA (MNI) - Canadian retail sales slumped far below expectations in July, by -0.6% to C$34.18 billion, mostly because of lower prices at gasoline stations, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday.

Against the trend, both in retail sales which had risen in five of

WASHINGTON (MNI) - The following is the commentary from the ICSC-Goldman Sachs Weekly Chain Store Sales Snapshot released Tuesday:

The ICSC-Goldman Sachs chain store sales index for the week ending September 19 dipped by a hefty 2.0% from the prior week, but increased by 0.6% from the same week of the prior year. The week-over-week decline

SINGAPORE (MNI) Sept 22 - The dollar moved in narrow ranges against major currencies in Asia morning trade as a lack of players and reluctance to make moves before the end of the U.S. FOMC kept dealing to a minimum.

With Japan still on holiday (Tokyo markets re-open Thursday) the dollar was trading around Y91.75, slightly weaker from its Y92.05 New

By Dennis Pettit

NEW YORK, Sep 21 (MNI) - The dollar was nursing slight losses vs. the euro and the yen in afternoon dealings Monday, with the greenback unable to hold on to solid gains notched against both currencies at the start of the session and falling victim to an ongoing "sell rallies" dictum that drives current trading.