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Michael Hasenstab, whose Franklin Templeton Global Bond Fund owns billions in Irish and Hungarian bonds, is drawing comparisons to the giants of the mutual fund industry.

A tax break added billions to the federal government’s current deficit, but the government says it should recoup 80 percent of the shortfall in the future.

An ambitious pipeline project to link the oil sands of Alberta province to a future terminal on Canada's west coast holds out the promise of billions ...

The Senate voted Wednesday to let the Federal Reserve slice the fees that stores must pay banks each time a customer swipes a debit card, handing merchants a victory over banks in a lobbying battle over billions in revenue.

Merchants triumphed over bankers in a battle for billions Wednesday as the Senate voted to let the Federal Reserve curb the fees that stores pay financial institutions when a customer swipes a debit card.

It was murkier, however, whether the nation's consumers were winners or losers.

The deal being discussed would offer billions of euros in fresh loans in return for accelerated privatization and tougher tax collection measures on the part of the beleaguered Greek government.

Procter & Gamble’s sale of Pringles, which began as such a dud that some called for the company to dump the brand, concludes a sometimes zany 50-year experiment in engineered food.

Nearly 600 institutions are holding on to more than $30 billion, about 13 percent of the $245 billion handed out to banks during the financial crisis.

Moscow is hoping to attract foreign investors to buy billions in bonds and stakes of state-owned companies.

Utilities are spending billions to upgrade to a smart grid from the electric grid, and are hoping to lure a younger generation of potential employees.