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Tuition at many public colleges and universities is skyrocketing, thanks to state budget deficits that have choked off funding for higher education.
The University […]

Asia is “relatively risk free” from contagion amid deteriorating confidence in Europe’s sovereign debt because its economies have stronger fiscal positions, CIMB Investment Bank […]

Belleville-based Taylor Roofing Inc. recently installed a "green roof terrace" at Rendleman Hall at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
The terrace garden, installed on […]

Fox Networks and Time Warner Cable announced an agreement Friday that will avert the disruption of Fox network programming to 15 million subscribers of […]

The Federal Reserve proposed a program to sell term deposits to banks to absorb some of the banking system’s $1 trillion in excess reserves […]

DUBAI–If global investors were looking for reassurances from Dubai that it would stand behind its massive, debt-swamped investment conglomerate, they got none Monday. Instead, […]

Hong Kong’s exports fell for a 12th straight month in October, dragging on the city’s recovery from a yearlong recession.
Overseas shipments declined 13.1 […]

The mortgage meltdown has ravaged the finances of a crucial government agency tasked with propping up the housing industry.
The Federal Housing Administration’s reserve fund […]

Stocks ended higher Wednesday, with the Dow industrials finishing at a 13-month high for third straight day, after investor optimism rose on the expectation […]

U.S. securities investigators raised repeated concern over how Bernard Madoff could be running an honest business, but never followed through on the many red […]