SEOUL, May 21 (Yonhap) -- The government said Tuesday it will bail out some delinquent borrowers from the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, as part of a policy bid to ease financial burdens of the underprivileged. Under the scheme, some 110,000 out of 2.36 million delinquent borrowers whose credit rating plummeted due to joint liabilities during the two-year financial turmoil will have their records erased by local financial institutions, according to the Financial Services Commission (FSC) and other state-run financial agencies.

By Kathleen Kingsbury BOSTON (Reuters) - When the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, starts rolling out in October, it will overhaul how Americans get healthcare coverage. Yet many workers will feel little immediate impact. That's because almost half the 160 million Americans who received health coverage through their jobs in 2012 were enrolled in what's known as a "grandfathered" insurance plan, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation report.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Small-company stocks were a bright spot in a slow and choppy start to the week for Wall Street. The Russell 2000, an index of small-company stocks, climbed above 1,000 points for the first time and ended higher Monday, even as the Dow Jones industrial average, the Standard Small stocks are doing well because they are more focused on the U.S., which is recovering, and are less exposed to recession-plagued Europe than the large international companies that make up the Dow and the S

By Karen Freifeld and David Henry (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co <JPM.N>, under pressure from the New York Attorney General's office, has agreed to give investors information about upcoming ballot votes, after the company that collects votes on the measures stopped giving out polling information last week.