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President Obama has all but ruled out appointing Erskine Bowles as Treasury Secretary, and is leaning toward naming his chief of staff Jack Lew to the post, people close to the administration say.

The president will sit down with business leaders on Wednesday to discuss ways to tackle the massive--and still growing--federal deficit. But will he hear anything new? 

CIT Group CEO John Thain, former head of Merrill Lynch, has been quietly shopping the firm to a larger player with the goal of selling, possibly to a big bank, and emerging as a candidate to run the bigger company, sources say.

Exclusive: Disgraced former MF Global chief Jon Corzine has told friends he won’t be starting a hedge fund as some have speculated.

Campaign officials representing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney are scrambling to shore up their support on Wall Street, which is growing increasingly alarmed about their preferred candidate’s chances to unseat President Obama in the November presidential election, the FOX Business Network has learned.

Exclusive: Goldman’s board has directed its new PR chief to reshape CEO Lloyd Blankfein’s battered image, as the board looks to keep Blankfein in the job to prevent a civil war between competing factions at the firm.

The FOX Business Network's Liz Claman recently sat down with Muhtar Kent, the chief executive of Coca-Cola, for an exclusive interview from the 2012 London Olympics.

Banks argue that while Libor may have indeed been manipulated, they didn’t collude in driving it down.

Exclusive: The former Goldman board member, recently convicted of insider trading, is urging friends to write letters of support so he can receive the most lenient sentence.

What would the unemployment rate be if all the people who want a job suddenly re-entered the workforce? Answer: 11.63%. 

Andrew Liveris, the chief executive of The Dow Chemical Company, weighs in on the health of the global market and what countries are showing the most strength right now. 

Knight Capital may yet survive – but in nowhere near the shape it was before its now infamous trading error, and possibly without its CEO.

Deutsche Bank is out with a warning saying Fed intervention might produce an economy filled with financially undead firms.

Gasparino: Rochdale Securities is scrambling to find financing to keep itself alive and convince its star analyst Dick Bove from jumping ship. 

I don’t know about you, but all that feel-good year-end fluff makes me want to fling my MacBook Air and see if it’ll fly like a Frisbee. There's no sugar-coating the truth behind the top leadership stories of 2012. 

If your gut tells you that what we’ve been experiencing for the past dozen years or so is not part of an economic cycle, you’re in good company. Every clear-thinking executive and business leader I know would agree with you.

This week’s job opportunities are a true American melting pot. From food to freight to books, we found several different fields that are looking for workers.

I’ll be posting a new list of job openings each week to coincide with my Fox and Friends, Fox News Radio, and Fox and Friends First appearances.

A Treasury Department official under President George W. Bush says the $340 million fine Standard Chartered agreed to pay due to its New York branch’s dealings with Iran is a disappointment.

Standard Chartered has agreed to pay a fine of $340 million to the New York Department of Financial Services after superintendent Benjamin M. Lawsky charged the bank with hiding more than 60,000 financial transactions amounting to more than $250 billion for Iranian state-owned banks.