Business_Finance
Latest Stories

US Election Hispanics_Reps.jpg
**FILE** Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (right) holds a roundtable discussion April 20, 2012, with Hispanic business owners in Tempe, Ariz. (Associated Press)

20120809-095601-pic-175164369.jpg
The home at 1547 Hornbeam Drive in Crofton is on the market for $635,000. The four-bedroom Colonial on a corner lot has a two-car garage and a large deck and backs to a golf course.

20120809-095450-pic-79870782.jpg
Toll Bros. is building 313 single-family homes at the Glen at Loudoun Valley in Ashburn. The four-bedroom Woodstock model, which has 3,170 square feet, is priced from $603,995. Homeowner association fees are $92 per month.

20120807-210812-pic-433715013.jpg
Smoke and flames shoot up Monday from a crude oil unit at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, Calif. The facility makes high-quality products that include gasoline, jet fuel, diesel fuel and lubricants, as well as chemicals used in manufacturing. (Associated Press)

20120807-193536-pic-537570404.jpg
Freddie Mac, the mortgage giant, posted a gain for the second quarter and isn’t requesting any additional federal aid for the period. This is the fifth quarter in which Freddie hasn’t requested new federal aid since it was taken over in September 2008. (Associated Press)

20120807-175330-pic-813201882.jpg
Pamela Anderson

Romney 2012_Live.jpg
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney thanks Warren Young, chief executive officer at Acme Industries, as he campaigns in Elk Grove Village, Ill., on Aug. 7, 2012. (Associated Press)

Refinery Fire_Live.jpg
Smoke and flame billow from a crude oil unit Aug. 6, 2012, at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, Calif. The facility makes high-quality products that include gasoline, jet fuel, diesel fuel and lubricants, as well as chemicals used to manufacture many other useful products. (Associated Press/The Contra Costa Times, D. Ross Cameron)

GSA Empty Courthouse_Reps.jpg
The David W. Dyer courthouse, a federal vacant building is shown in Miami, Monday, Aug. 6, 2012. The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is conducting an ongoing investigation to stop the federal government from wasting billions of dollars of taxpayer's money by sitting on its assets and mismanaging valuable federal-owned properties. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

20120806-210835-pic-417692698.jpg
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney puts corn in a plastic bag Aug. 6, 2012, as he shops for groceries at Hunter’s Shop and Save supermarket in Wolfeboro, N.H. (Associated Press)