Kyle Glazier

The 2008-2009 financial crisis that rocked worldwide markets was amplified by the lack of a sufficient regulatory framework, including checks on the largest broker-dealer firms, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke said Friday.

WASHINGTON -- Consumer prices rose 0.3% in March, after climbing 0.4% last month on a seasonally adjusted basis, the Labor Department reported Friday.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. international trade deficit was $46 billion for February, a 12.4% decrease from the slightly revised $52.5 billion deficit for January, originally reported as a $52.6 billion gap, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.

WASHINGTON — A recently released Fitch Ratings report projects a sharp increase in the use of "managed" or HOT lanes on highways, but warns that such toll lanes will be more volatile than traditional toll roads because they are located next to non-toll roads.

The particularly hard-hit Los Angeles housing market provides a glimpse of why the nationwide economic recovery has progressed more slowly than expected, Federal Reserve Board Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin said Thursday.

The U.S. international trade deficit was $46.0 billion for February, a 12.4% decrease from the slightly revised $52.5 billion deficit for January, originally reported as a $52.6 billion shortage, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.

WASHINGTON — U.S. import prices rose 1.3% and export prices were up 0.8% in March after a revised decline in import prices of 0.1% in February, the Labor Department reported Wednesday.

The federal government’s budget deficit was $198.2 billion in March, down from $231.7 billion in February, but up $10.0 billion or 5% from the $188.2 billion deficit a year ago, the Treasury Department reported Wednesday.

U.S. import prices rose 1.3% and export prices were up 0.8% in March after a revised decline in import prices of 0.1% in February, the Labor Department reported Wednesday.

Sales of merchant wholesalers were up 1.2% to $409.4 billion in February, while inventories rose 0.9%, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday.

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has launched a probe of the California High Speed Rail Authority, asking its board members to preserve all records related to the nearly $4 billion in federal funds approved that, along with a proposed $2.7 billion bond issue, would finance the bullet train along the California coast.

Sales of merchant wholesalers were up 1.2% to $409.4 billion in February after remaining unchanged in January, while inventories rose 0.9%, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday.

A $300 million bond issue designed to keep tolls down on the controversial Dulles Toll Road may be in jeopardy as the Virginia General Assembly votes on a proposed budget that does not include the authorization for the debt.

Consumer credit increased by $8.7 billion, or 4.2%, in February to $2.521.8 trillion, the Federal Reserve reported Friday.

Non-farm payroll employment rose 120,000 in March and the unemployment rate dipped to 8.2%, the Labor Department reported Friday.

The Department of Transportation has received $10.2 billion in applications for the $500 million available through its latest round of TIGER funding, highlighting the pressing need for infrastructure investment, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced Thursday.

WASHINGTON — Seasonally adjusted initial jobless claims fell 6,000 to 357,000 for the week ending March 31, the lowest level since April 19, 2008, when there were 352,000 such claims, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

Seasonally adjusted initial jobless claims fell to 357,000 for the week ending March 31, the lowest level since April 19, 2008, when there were 352,000 such claims, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

WASHINGTON — The Maryland Transportation Authority will price more than $260 million of tax-exempt bonds to refund 2002 bonds and to finance a passenger walkway and tunnel for the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, according to bond documents released Tuesday.

Standard & Poor's issued its first public rating of a public-private partnership in the United States, a BBB-minus for a project to build a tunnel under the Elizabeth River between Norfolk, Va., and Portsmouth.