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Faced with customers who can't use banks, or want to avoid them altogether, big-box stores like Costco and Wal-Mart are offering access to everything from insurance policies to home mortgages.

The state of Oregon is getting ready to send $402 million back to taxpayers. State economists Wednesday announced the first so-called kicker rebate...

It used to be that companies strove for the best credit rating possible. These days, however, America's corporations seem happy to slide by with a passing grade.

President Obama is headed to Iowa on Tuesday where he will likely talk about wind energy. The president says he'll continue tax credits for wind energy and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he won't.

Fitch Ratings cut the U.S.'s rating by one notch, moving it from the previous top-rated AAA to AA+, citing worsening governance as a key factor — just months after the country averted a debt default.

As the U.S. dollar hit a 12-year low Thursday in relation to the yen, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson talks with Melissa Block about the weakness of the dollar and recommendations from the president's working group on shoring up the nation's financial services sector.

The Islamic State group claimed credit for Monday's rampage in central Vienna. The attacker was shot by police.

Film and television producers will soon have an even greater incentive to shoot in Oregon.

Credit Suisse will plead guilty to criminal charges and pay over $2 billion in fines in connection to allegations of tax evasion. But the CEO and chairman are reportedly expected to keep their jobs.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, a Democrat, about his support of the expanded child tax credit, which is part of the stimulus package Democrats passed in March.