The debt ceiling is the legal limit on the total amount of federal debt that the US government can have outstanding. Read ...

Stocks wavered Tuesday as Washington resumed negotiations over raising the debt ceiling in order to avoid a historic default on U.S government borrowings. The stock market has been mostly sanguine ...

But a potential congressional deadlock could threaten a default on America’s ... In 2011, a major fight over the debt ceiling hammered the stock market when Standard and Poor’s (for the ...

If the trend returns to the upside, it'll buck many of the gloomiest predictions of a crushing earnings recession and a painful stock market ... default. What's your prediction for the debt ...

However, reports that debt ceiling negotiations are progressing ... With over a decade of experience writing about the stock market, Karee Venema is the senior investing editor at Kiplinger.com.

The nation’s debt ceiling was reinstated Thursday ... based on the revenue it receives daily. A default could also roil the global economy and stock markets and likely prompt yields on US ...

A default on United States government debt owing to the debt ceiling isn’t likely, but should one happen, here’s what the damage could look like. The Congress fight over raising the government ...

Long an anachronism of American politics, the debt ceiling is back front and ... Among the consequences: a severe drop or crash in the stock market, higher interest rates for borrowers, a credit ...

High atop his agenda for the second day is a topic that won't be quite so simple: the debt ceiling ... wary investors that a potentially market-rattling default could be a possibility in a ...

Yellen said the Treasury would suspend investments in two government employee benefit funds through March 14, to claw back borrowing capacity under the $36.1 trillion debt ceiling. As of Thursday ...

The U.S. Senate passed a House-approved bill late Thursday to suspend the national debt limit and put a lid on government spending for two years, and President Joe Biden is expected to sign the ...

Long an anachronism of American politics, the debt ceiling is back front and ... Among the consequences: a severe drop or crash in the stock market, higher interest rates for borrowers, a credit ...