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American employers substantially stepped up their hiring in January, bringing the unemployment rate down for the fifth month in a row.

A drop in the unemployment rate to its lowest level in three years propelled stocks higher Friday.

Trader John Panin, center, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange this morning.

S&P 500, Dow Jones industrial average and Nasdaq futures were 0.2% higher ahead of the opening bell Thursday morning.

Aiming to restore voters' faith in Congress, the Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill Thursday that makes clear it's illegal for members of Congress, their staffs and many executive-branch employees to trade stocks and other securities based on inside information learned on the job.

The Federal Reserve is making it increasingly hard for investors to earn anything, unless they're willing to accept plenty of risk.

When Facebook goes public in a few months, will its stock appear on the New York Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq? Depends what its billionaire founder prefers for a backdrop - a trading floor on Wall Street or towering video screens in Times Square.

A bill that clarifies the illegality of insider trading of stocks and other securities by members of Congress and their staff members won approval Thursday from the U.S. Senate.

A police officer walks past a projection of the Ontario Police services that participated in a province-wide investigation targeting child pornography offenders following a media conference in Vaughan, Ontario on Thursday, February 2, 2012.

Facebook's long-awaited IPO filing lifted shares of freshly minted public Internet companies, including recent laggards Zynga and Groupon.

U.S. stocks were mixed Thursday as investors digest comments from Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and keep a wary eye on Greece's debt talks.

U.S. stocks were little changed on Thursday, as a mixed bag of retail sales reports and unemployment claims data failed to push stocks in either direction.

The desire to fatten year-end bonuses motivated a Credit Suisse executive and two of his employees to conspire to hide the deteriorating condition of the U.S. housing market in 2007 to keep the value of bonds based on subprime mortgages artificially high, authorities said Wednesday.

A masked man is reflected on an electronic stock board at a securities firm in central Tokyo, Monday, Jan.

The eurozone debt crisis took its toll on Germany's Deutsche Bank and its investment banking businesses, sending fourth-quarter net profits down 69 percent to euro186 million .

During his presidential campaign in 2007, Republican candidate Mitt Romney promised that a trust overseeing his financial portfolio would shed any investments that conflicted with GOP positions toward Iran, China, stem cell research and other issues.

The Federal Reserve said last week that it would keep its benchmark rate at record lows for at least another three years.

Stocks climbed Wednesday after strong manufacturing data and encouraging reports about the Greek debt crisis.

The dollar fell against the euro and other major currencies Wednesday on stronger manufacturing data from the U.S. and China.

The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing managers, said Wednesday that its manufacturing index rose last month to 54.1 from 53.1 in December.