Six Russian tankers still under construction at Russia's Zvezda shipyard have been sanctioned by the United States. This is the first time that Washington has banned tankers before they even set sail.

The US Treasury Department will start taking "extraordinary measures" next week to avoid risking a default on government debt, Secretary Janet Yellen said Friday, days before President-elect Donald ...

Stocks and bonds staged a turnaround this week as investors cheered a flurry of positive headlines that bolstered the case ...

It is not clear how long Congress will have to secure a deal on funding or raising the debt ceiling again once the measures ...

This letter serves to notify you, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 8348(l)(2), of the extraordinary measures that Treasury will begin ...

The United States is set to see its debt level swell to a record over the coming decade, the Congressional Budget Office said Friday, days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

Investors are appraising Trump policies' likely impact on stocks on the last trading day before the inauguration.

In one of her last acts as Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen says her agency will start taking “extraordinary measures,” or ...

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, the U.S. government’s fiscal health is bleak, with debt and deficits ...

Janet L. Yellen, the outgoing Treasury secretary, urged lawmakers to raise the debt limit and protect the full faith and ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that the government will reach its statutory borrowing limit on Tuesday and begin employing "extraordinary measures" to keep from breaching the cap and ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Friday the nation will hit its debt ceiling the day after President Trump is inaugurated and that the agency will begin “extraordinary measures” to stave off ...