Bonds

Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills rose in Monday's auction to the highest levels in two weeks.

Students from the troubled Corinthian Colleges are getting support from state attorneys general and U.S. senators in their quest to have their federal student loans forgiven.

The European Central Bank has met its monthly goal of purchasing 60 billion euros in government and private-sector bonds, the first stage of a 1.1 trillion euro ($1.2 trillion) program aimed at boosting the economy.

Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills fell in Monday's auction.

The fund that pays for New Jersey roads and bridges will be broke after the next fiscal year, the state's top transportation official said Thursday.

Kansas is expected to issue $1 billion in bonds later this year to bolster its pension system for teachers and government workers.

Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills rose in Monday's auction to the highest levels in two weeks.

Kansas is considering $1 billion or more in pension bonds because it has a chance to improve the state retirement system's financial health, not because officials want to back off short-term funding commitments, the Legislature's pension committee chairmen said Monday.

Citibank says a U.S. court has authorized it to process two debt payments for Argentina without facing contempt charges over a long-running dispute with U.S. bondholders.

Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills fell in Monday's auction.

House Democrats have unveiled a $3.7 trillion budget plan for next year.

After a year with no cap on government borrowing, the federal debt limit has come back into force.

Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills rose in Monday's auction to their highest levels since late December.

Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury securities rose to a record level in January despite a cutback by investors in China, the largest foreign owner of Treasury debt.

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew is telling Congress the steps he will be taking once the federal government hits the debt limit on Monday.

Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills were mixed in Monday's auction with rates on six-month bills climbing to the highest level since January while rates on three-month bills were unchanged.

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew is telling Congress that he will start using the package of emergency measures he has used in the past to keep the federal government from going over the debt limit next week.

Cleaning ladies who have waged Greece's longest-running anti-austerity protest have camped outside a finance ministry building in Athens for nearly two years with one goal — getting their state-paid jobs back.

With an eye toward a possible run for the White House, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio is signing onto an ambitious plan to cut taxes for investors, parents and businesses in an effort to spur economic growth and create jobs.

Brazilian oil firm Petrobras has now been downgraded to junk bond status by Moody's.