Despite U.S. backing, bonds issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have skeptics.

Despite U.S. backing, bonds issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have skeptics.

Montenegro — an idyllic town on the Adriatic — has received more foreign investment per capita than any other country on the Continent.

Once again, South Korea appears threatened by an international financial contagion that began elsewhere.

Investors have taken trillions of dollars out of emerging markets since January, sending the dollar sky high and currencies around the world plummeting.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued new rules applying to a multibillion-dollar I.R.S. program that allows foreign banks to funnel money overseas on behalf of American clients .

Japan’s megabanks and financial titans are returning to the world financial stage after an absence of almost two decades, buying pieces of Wall Street institutions.

Europe and Japan have signaled they are not ready to mount a rescue of the kind being debated in the United States.

Sovereign wealth funds from the Mideast, which spent billions of dollars for minority stakes in Wall Street banks not long ago, are much less interested in those assets now.

Sovereign wealth funds from the Mideast, who spent billions of dollars for minority stakes in Wall Street banks not long ago, are much less interested in those assets now.