Bonds

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.

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

Moody's Investors Service has downgraded $48 billion worth of Puerto Rico debt as the U.S. territory struggles to generate more revenue.

Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates have risen for a second straight week yet remained near historically low levels.

Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury securities rose to a record level in December despite investors in China and Japan, the two biggest foreign owners of Treasury debt, cutting back on their holdings.

Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills fell in Tuesday's auction, with rates on three-month bills falling to the lowest level since mid-October.

Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills rose in Monday's auction with rates on six-month bills reaching their highest level in over a month.

Standard & Poor's is paying about $1.38 billion to settle government allegations that it knowingly inflated its ratings of risky mortgage investments that helped trigger the financial crisis.

Australian stocks jumped to a near-seven-year high after an interest rate cut Tuesday and Chinese stocks rebounded from a losing streak, leading most other global markets higher as jitters about Greece's new government subsided.

Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills fell in Monday's auction with rates on three-month bills dropping to the lowest level since October.

President Barack Obama is sending Congress a $4 trillion budget that seeks to raise taxes on wealthier Americans and corporations and use the extra income to lift the fortunes of families who have felt squeezed during tough economic times.