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The warning from the ratings agency could not have been more direct: The parent company of the Mohegan Sun faces a "wall of debt" due early this year as the casino, struggling with rising competition and a weak economy that's hammered consumer spending, tries to refinance hundreds of millions of dollars in loans.

The International Monetary Fund said Wednesday that it's aiming to increase its financial firepower by around $500 billion so it can give out new loans to help ease a worsening financial crisis.

The nation’s biggest banks are getting back to the business of writing loans to businesses and consumers after another year of dismal returns from in-house investment trading.

Banks lined up for almost half a trillion euros in cheap three-year loans, part of an unprecedented effort to keep credit flowing in the euro zone.

The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret.

The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret.

Now, the rest of the world can see what it was missing.

China’s policy makers have created an artificial credit crunch in order to keep inflation in check, raising concerns that

Wells Fargo & Co. on Monday said that its third-quarter profit jumped 21 percent, as write offs of bad loans dropped while deposits grew.

After more than four years of a housing market crisis and major changes in credit card terms, it may be hard to believe that many consumers don't know what types of loans they have.

The European Union hopes that the results of an examination of its financial institutions, to be announced Friday, will quell fears about the banks’ ability to provide loans.