Tampa area house hunters - led mostly by first-time homebuyers continued to purchase in September, edging up home sales as the median sales price continued to drop. ...more

October 24, 2009

Lured by the government's cash for clunkers campaign, car and truck buyers started returning to showrooms in July, with Ford Motor Co. reporting its first U.S. sales increase in nearly two years and other major automakers saying sales are showing signs of stability. ...more

August 4, 2009

The government says consumers increased spending for a second straight month in February even though their incomes slipped because of continuing layoffs. ...more

March 28, 2009

A Georgia bank with a branch in Tampa was taken over by regulators Friday, marking the 21st failure this year of a federally insured bank. ...more

March 28, 2009

Irving R. Levine, the bow-tied NBC newsman who explained the fine points of economics to millions of viewers for nearly a quarter century, has died. He was 86. ...more

March 27, 2009

A Georgia bank with a branch in Tampa was taken over by regulators Friday, marking the 21st failure this year of a federally insured bank. ...more

March 27, 2009

The economy shrank at a 6.3 percent pace at the end of 2008, the worst showing in a quarter-century, and probably isn't doing much better now. ...more

March 26, 2009

President Barack Obama claimed early progress Tuesday night in his aggressive campaign to lead the nation out of economic chaos and declared that despite obstacles ahead, "we're moving in the right direction." At the second prime-time news conference of his presidency, Obama also toned down his criticism of bonuses to executives at bailed-out AIG, and shot back at Republican critics of his budget. ...more

March 24, 2009

The era of the consumer-driven economy may be over. After powering U.S. and global growth for more than a generation, the American consumer has run out of gas. Burdened by debt and no longer able to borrow against rising home and stock values, U.S. households have begun a retreat in spending that will require the nation and the world to find new economic drivers, economists say. ...more

March 24, 2009

Leonard Hamilton has been working with an unsigned contract at Florida State the past couple of years, but that's about to change. ...more

March 18, 2009