Americans worry about funding a long retirement (AP)

No change expected in Fed interest rates (AP)
AP - The Federal Reserve, caught between mounting job losses and rising inflation, is likely to sit tight and hope that the interest rate cuts it has already provided will be enough to heal a...

Rising prices beat down consumer spending in June (AP)
AP - Consumer spending, after adjusting for inflation, fell in June as shoppers were hit with the biggest increase in prices in nearly three decades.

Wholesale prices soar in June; sales are sluggish (AP)
AP - The economy showed the depth of its twin problems on Tuesday, slow growth and rising inflation, as the nation wrestled with a teetering financial system, a slumping dollar and rising...

Stocks advance as oil pulls off fresh high (AP)
AP - Stocks rose Monday, the final session of an arduous first half, as the price of oil pulled off its high and relieved some inflation worries.

Oil climbs to record above $141 in Asia (AP)
AP - Oil prices climbed to a record above $141 a barrel in Asian trading Friday as the dollar's protracted slump prompted investors to flock to oil as a hedge against inflation.