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• FACTBOX-Likely candidates to replace Bernanke at U.S. Fed in 2014 Tuesday, 18 Jun 2013 | 11:03 AM ET

  Obama told Charlie Rose, host of a PBS interview program, that Bernanke was like longtime FBI Director Robert Mueller, who agreed to stay two years longer in the job than he had planned and is to leave in the coming months. Ben Bernanke's a little bit like Bob Mueller, the head of the FBI- where he's already stayed a lot longer than he wanted or he was supposed to. "

• UPDATE 1-Obama says Bernanke has 'stayed a lot longer' than he wanted at Fed Tuesday, 18 Jun 2013 | 8:39 AM ET

  WASHINGTON, June 17- President Barack Obama hinted in an interview aired on Monday that he may be looking for a new chief of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, saying Ben Bernanke has stayed a lot longer than the current chairman had originally planned.

• Obama says Bernanke has 'stayed a lot longer' than he wanted at Fed Monday, 17 Jun 2013 | 10:59 PM ET

  WASHINGTON, June 17- President Barack Obama hinted in an interview aired on Monday that he may be looking for a new chief of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, saying current Chairman Ben Bernanke has stayed a lot longer than he had originally planned.

• Five criteria Obama may weigh in seeking Bernanke successor Friday, 7 Jun 2013 | 1:00 AM ET

  WASHINGTON, June 7- In the summer of 2009, with the U.S. economy badly wounded and the nation's financial calamity still a vivid memory, President Barack Obama's closest aides began a vital discussion about who he should nominate to run the Federal Reserve.

• FACTBOX-Likely candidates to replace Bernanke at Fed in 2014 Friday, 7 Jun 2013 | 1:00 AM ET

  If history is any guide, President Barack Obama will pick a candidate to succeed the one-time Princeton University professor sometime during the summer, allowing ample time for the Senate to consider the nominee before a final confirming vote. She began her career as an assistant professor at Harvard in the early 1970 s before shifting over to the Fed.

• COLUMN - The case for keeping Bernanke Sunday, 2 Jun 2013 | 4:10 PM ET

  June 2- Whisper it abroad: The U.S. economy is on the mend. Most recent indicators suggest that, five years after the start of the Great Recession, the "L-shaped" recovery is finally heading north. As Winston Churchill said after the Battle of Alamein, "This is not the end.

• UPDATE 2-Obama chooses economic adviser Deese as deputy budget director Monday, 1 Apr 2013 | 5:20 PM ET

  WASHINGTON, April 1- President Barack Obama announced on Monday he had chosen White House economic adviser Brian Deese to be deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, confirming a Reuters report.

• EXCLUSIVE-Obama to nominate economic adviser Deese as deputy budget director Monday, 1 Apr 2013 | 3:39 PM ET

  WASHINGTON, April 1- President Barack Obama will announce on Monday he has chosen White House economic adviser Brian Deese to be deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget.

• EXCLUSIVE-Obama to nominate Deese as deputy budget director Monday Monday, 1 Apr 2013 | 3:05 PM ET

  WASHINGTON, April 1- President Barack Obama will announce on Monday he has chosen White House economic adviser Brian Deese to be deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget.

• Fed Decision Ahead: Bernanke's Legacy  Wednesday, 20 Mar 2013 | 1:45 PM ET

  

  If Fed Chairman Bernanke is not nominated again, who might likely take over? Neil Irwin, The Washington Post; Michael Santoli, Yahoo! Finance; Ben White, Politico; and Josh Boak, The Fiscal times, share their opinions.

• COLUMN-Cyprus gets on with it: James Saft Tuesday, 19 Mar 2013 | 2:59 PM ET

  March 19- Unfair and a bungle it may be, but the plan to levy bank deposits in Cyprus does have its virtues. The levy is a good thing for Cyprus in two ways: it helps to protect future taxpayers; and it will tend to shrink the island's grossly distended financial services industry. To be clear, as originally proposed, the bailout of Cyprus banks is an outrage.

• UPDATE 1-U.S. to press China on cyber attacks, seek deeper ties -official Friday, 15 Mar 2013 | 12:29 AM ET

  Treasury Secretary Jack Lew will press China to take "serious steps" to stop cyber attacks directed at the United States and urge the administration of new Chinese President Xi Jinping to accelerate economic reforms, a U.S. official said on Friday.

• UPDATE 2-Obama, China's Xi discuss cybersecurity dispute in phone call Thursday, 14 Mar 2013 | 6:01 PM ET

  *Cabinet secretaries to visit China soon in separate visits. WASHINGTON, March 14- President Barack Obama took mounting U.S. concerns about computer hacking straight to China's president on Thursday in a sign of how seriously the United States takes the threat of cyber attacks emanating from China.

• UPDATE 1-Obama, China's Xi discuss cyber security dispute in phone call Thursday, 14 Mar 2013 | 3:43 PM ET

  *Cabinet secretaries to visit China soon in separate visits. WASHINGTON, March 14- President Barack Obama took mounting U.S. concerns about computer hacking straight to China's president on Thursday in a sign of how seriously the United States takes the threat of cyber attacks emanating from China.

• UPDATE 1-JPMorgan says London Whale didn't cause Lehman bankruptcy Thursday, 28 Feb 2013 | 3:44 PM ET

  *Lehman suing JPMorgan in $8.6 billion case. NEW YORK, Feb 28- The former JPMorgan Chase& Co trader known as the "London Whale" was not responsible for Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc's bankruptcy and should not be dragged into an $8.6 billion lawsuit accusing the largest U.S. bank of causing it, JPMorgan said.

• JPMorgan says London Whale didn't cause Lehman bankruptcy Thursday, 28 Feb 2013 | 11:02 AM ET

  *Lehman suing JPMorgan in $8.6 billion case. NEW YORK, Feb 28- The former JPMorgan Chase& Co trader known as the "London Whale" was not responsible for Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc's bankruptcy and should not be dragged into an $8.6 billion lawsuit accusing the largest U.S. bank of causing it, JPMorgan said.

• CORRECTED-UPDATE 2-U.S. Senate approves Lew as Treasury chief Thursday, 28 Feb 2013 | 9:38 AM ET

  WASHINGTON, Feb 27- The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Jack Lew as President Barack Obama's new Treasury secretary, putting the former White House chief of staff in the middle of political brawls over the government's budget.

• Jack Lew sworn in as U.S. Treasury secretary Thursday, 28 Feb 2013 | 12:54 AM ET

  WASHINGTON, Feb 28- Jack Lew was sworn in as U.S. Treasury secretary on Thursday, a White House official said, after winning bipartisan support in the Senate. Lew, a budget expert and former chief of staff for President Barack Obama, was confirmed by the Senate on Wednesday with 20 Republicans voting for him.

• UPDATE 1-U.S. Senate approves Lew as new Treasury chief Wednesday, 27 Feb 2013 | 6:36 PM ET

  WASHINGTON, Feb 27- The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Jack Lew as President Barack Obama's new Treasury secretary, putting the former White House chief of staff in the middle of a bitter political fight over the government's budget. Some Republicans had expressed misgivings about Lew's perks from previous employers Citigroup and New York University.

• UPDATE 2-U.S. Senate panel backs Lew for Treasury secretary Tuesday, 26 Feb 2013 | 11:23 AM ET

  *Committee votes 19-5 to send nomination to full Senate. Treasury, Jack Lew, despite some concerns about his perks from previous employers, clearing the way for a confirmation vote in the full Senate. With the 19-5 vote, about half of the panel's 11 Republicans opposed Lew's nomination, which could be brought to the Senate floor for a final vote as early as Wednesday.