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

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 ...

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 ...

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 $36.1 trillion debt ceiling was hit on Tuesday. That has left the Treasury Department to rely on "extraordinary measures" to avoid the threat of a technical default. Some of those measures ...

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 ...

Should Congress fail to act on that threat and not raise the debt ceiling ... SenateDems are exposing how the Default on America (DOA) Act will crash the economy, raise costs, and kill good ...

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 ...

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 ...