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European Union countries will need to sell billions of dollars in bonds every week in 2012 to replace existing debt, and policymakers and investors are watching debt auctions for signs of weakness.

The widespread failure of all-metal hips may cost taxpayers, insurers and employers billions of dollars in the coming years.

According to an internal memo, the authorities are working to determine whether Olympus worked with organized crime syndicates to obscure billions of dollars in past investment losses.

Groupon, which recently cut its valuation by billions of dollars, may still be valued too high ahead of its initial public offering.

Every year senior citizens are robbed of billions of dollars, and in a majority of cases, the crime goes unreported--not because the perpetrator cannot be identified, but because he or she is a family member or trusted advisor.

Oracle Corp is seeking damages "in the billions of dollars" from Google Inc in a patent lawsuit over the smartphone market, according to a court filing.

Hundreds of billions of dollars have been lost by investors while millions of borrowers have lost their homes.

Few of the people who ran the institutions that contributed to the disaster have been found liable.

The traders are buying hundreds of billions of dollars of United States Treasury securities on the open market in a controversial attempt to keep interest rates low and revive the economy.

The Justice Department on Wednesday sued BP and eight other companies in the Gulf oil spill disaster in an effort to recover billions of dollars from the largest offshore spill in U.S. history.

Two years after the Fed bought billions of dollars in mortgage securities as part of the financial bailout, it is pressing banks to buy some of them back.