Personal Economics
  • Target

    Target Data Breach Impacted As Many As 110M People

    By Javier E. David and Izzy Best, CNBC

    Target disclosed on Friday that a mass information breach involved data belonging to up to 110 million individuals—a number far more extensive than originally believed. The big box retailer said that...

  • Air Force drug probe targets 10 officers in U.S., Britain

    By Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ten U.S. Air Force officers are being investigated for alleged illegal drug possession, the Air Force said on Friday, a day after the probe surfaced as Defense Secretary Chuck...

  • Escalating costs are forcing medical schools to grapple with teaching about the financial side of their profession.

    Maryland Hospitals May Be Paid for Keeping People Out

    By Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News

    Maryland officials have reached what analysts say is an unprecedented deal to limit medical spending and abandon decades of expensively paying hospitals for each extra procedure they perform. If the...

  • Weak jobs growth unlikely to derail QE cuts: Fed officials

    Weak jobs growth unlikely to derail QE cuts: Fed officials

    By Jonathan Spicer and Krista Hughes, Reuters

    INDIANAPOLIS/RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Another cut to bond purchases appears in the offing this month despite data that showed U.S. jobs growth slowed sharply in December, two top Federal...

  • U.S. Fed nominee Fischer taught Bernanke, fought crises

    U.S. Fed nominee Fischer taught Bernanke, fought crises

    By Ann Saphir, Reuters

    (Reuters) - Stanley Fischer, President Barack Obama's pick to be vice chairman at the Federal Reserve, is a pragmatic policymaker who battled economic crises in Mexico and Asia and steered Israel's...