Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke could send a signal today on interest rates.

South Korea’s government moved to shore up the country’s banking system amid the global credit crisis.

President Bush will lay out a more detailed explanation today of what the government is doing to battle the worst financial crisis in more than a half-century.

Today in Washington, we get a fresh batch of economic reports, a day after another big sell-off on Wall Street.  The Dow fell another 733 points. 

Tokyo’s Nikkei fell more than 11 percent, it’s biggest one-day drop since the stock market crash of October 1987.

Aid groups are warning the world’s poorest people will be hungrier, sicker and have fewer jobs as a result of the global financial crisis.

As markets opened in Europe, Britain’s FTSE-100 shot up 5.7 percent, Germany’s DAX climbed 6.4 percent and France’s CAC-40 advanced 6.8 percent.

Rapidly developing and poor nations engulfed by the global financial crisis will be the focus of meetings between global finance ministers in Washington today.

An early morning White House meeting of the world’s biggest economic powers has brought more assurances, but apparently no new strategies on the credit crunch.

As world finance ministers look at the big picture in Washington this weekend, workers around the country are starting to see the impact of this credit crunch.

President Bush said today that the government’s financial rescue plan is aggressive enough and big enough to work.

Japan’s key index shed nearly 10% to close out its work week in history.  On Wall Street, the Dow opens below 9,000 for the first time in five years.  President Bush will address the economy this morning from the White House.

Cutting high school sports, conservation efforts and crimes investigated by state law enforcement are all possibilities in the looming state budget crisis.

On Thursday the federal government considered yet more action to revive credit markets still strangled by the U.S. mortgage meltdown.

The U.S. has teamed up with banks around the world to ease interest rates in hopes of preventing this global financial crisis from getting worse.