BOSTON (MarketWatch) — While Congress has been wrestling with the idea of whether to step into the fray to attempt a rescue, bailout or prop-up of the nation’s financial system, individual investors have been grappling with a personal question:

Credit-card debt is on the brink of imploding and will be the next storm to hit the fragile finance industry, an investment research firm predicted this week.

John McCain’s a street fighter and may well end up the 44th president of the United States. What’s his secret strategy? What’s the new McCainonomics going to look like if he takes office?

Yahoo Japan, a key holding of troubled U.S. Internet company Yahoo Inc., posted profit and sales gains late Tuesday for its fiscal year ended in March.

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — When money market fund provider The Reserve announced on Sept. 16 that its flagship Primary Fund had “broken the buck” and was worth less than $1 a share, the shock was so great that within days investors had pulled more than $120 billion from money funds.

THE short-term credit markets remain fragile, with borrowers forced to pay much higher rates to raise cash even for just one day.