Market and Exchange

National gasoline prices reached an average of $3.14 a gallon this week, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That means gas prices today are 53 cents more per gallon compared with a year ago and the highest prices we???ve......

The average price for a gallon of gas was up yet again over the weekend and is 11 cents higher than last week, settling at $3.77 nationally. At that rate we'll see $4 gas by early May, but drivers have......

As of this morning, the average regular gas price stood at $3.84 a gallon nationally, according to the AAA. While still high, it???s a far cry from the year???s high of $3.98 a gallon, which we saw nationally on May......

by Mark Silva Gasoline has passed $4 per gallon, on average - when first presented with the possibility that prices might reach that mark, at the end of February, President Bush said he "hadn't heard that.'' Now that everyone has......

by Frank James For the past few months as oil-futures prices were breaking records with a barrel of oil topping out around $150, Many congressional Democrats raised concerns about speculators in the "dark" market driving up those crude-oil prices....

by Mark Silva President Bush is trying to change the subject. The subject all week and this coming week: Hurricanes and tropical storms. The ones that have passed and the ones coming. The story line is good: Recovery efforts so......

by Frank James The good news is the economic slowdown caused prices in October to fall by the largest monthly percentage ever recorded. Consumers should be pretty pleased, right? Not necessarily. Because the bad news is this could signal even......

by Frank James More concerns today about the dreaded economic possibility of deflation, the phenomenon where prices fall throughout the economy, reducing the power of companies and workers to charge what they need to in order to make ends meet.......

Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's one-time public-relations aide Darren Dopp, who was caught in the center of his boss's get-Bruno blowup, says he won't participate in his ethics hearing Wednesday, citing legal action he filed late Monday against the state........

by Matthew Hay Brown The Senate voted overwhelmingly today to suspend shipments to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and the House is expected to follow suit momentarily. House Republican leaders say the move, intended to reduce prices at the pump by......

by Frank James The big sigh of relief that could be heard emanating from the far end of Constitution Ave. nearest the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. was the sound of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke exhaling. That's because today's......

— Well, at least we're starting to get the procedure right. Washington has rediscovered the beauty of the boring. It's called "regular order," using the normal, routine, constitutional process to arrive at, for example, a budget. Normal had...