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Goldman Sachs said it did nothing wrong when it accepted almost $13 billion in payments from government-supported AIG.

As many newspaper companies try to turn themselves around in a brutal economy, under huge debt loads and against a backdrop of increasingly funereal media coverage, it's worth looking at the behavior and motives of some of the industry's harshest critics.

Washington Mutual's holding company is suing federal regulators for billions of dollars, saying the firesale of the bank's assets to JPMorgan Chase violated its rights.

A street sign is seen on Wall Street outside the New York Stock Exchange. Reuters NEW YORK: Wall Street's attempt to recover further from 12-year lows faces its biggest test yet next week in the Treasury's long-delayed bank rescue plan.

NEW YORK - Citigroup Inc.'s CEO Vikram Pandit pushed back Friday against efforts in Washington to tax bonuses at financial companies that received federal bailout funds, saying it could result in the loss of valuable employees right when they're most needed.

All three major credit agencies are giving California the nation's lowest bond rating.

Herbert Allison, installed by government regulators as CEO of the company last fall, sent a companywide e-mail Friday defending Fannie Mae's bonus program for thousands of workers.

A sharp rebound in bank shares and easing worries about the economy pushed stocks to their best week since late November.

The running joke about student loans: Don't ever graduate, since you don't have to start paying them back until you do.

With shrinking inventories, a jump in Chinese demand and a lower U.S. dollar, many analysts say base metals prices may have bottomed out and could be on their way back up.