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The Fed meets Tuesday to discuss short-term interest rates. Marketplace's John Dimsdale talks about what he expects to see.

The Federal Reserve meets today and is expected to hold interest rates at their current level. The committee will likely cite falling oil prices and slowing inflation as reasons why rates should stay where they are.

Officials with Facebook.com, the online social-networking site, are entertaining a billion-dollar purchase offer from Yahoo.com, according to a report in Thursday's Wall Street Journal.

The sudden rise is blamed on violence in Nigeria and new warnings that OPEC will have problems meeting global demand for oil in the next two decades.

The Bancroft family, which owns a majority stake in Dow Jones & Company, says they'll turn down media tycoon Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion bid for the company. Dow Jones is the publisher of The Wall Street Journal.

A case in the Supreme Court today may determine the fate of millions of inventors' patents. A law says that an invention can't be patented if it is "obvious," but the definition of "obvious" isn't clear after decades of litigation. Now, many companies have filed briefs calling for a change to the rule.

Three Americans won the Nobel Prize in Economics Monday. They developed something called "mechanism design theory," which helps explain the decision-making processes behind business moves.

Wall Street is reeling from a falling dollar, soaring oil prices and mortgage losses. However, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke tells lawmakers the economy is still humming along reasonably well.

What you pay for health insurance on the Affordable Care Act's marketplaces varies widely based on where you live. Steve Inskeep talks to Jordan Rau, senior correspondent with Kaiser Health News, about the 10 cheapest health care markets, the 10 most expensive and what may behind the price differences.

Oil prices hit a new high on Friday. As the price climbed to $92 a barrel, analysts says it is possible the price could continue to climb past $100. Soon, the price of gas and home heating oil will follow crude's rise.