Does a financial crisis pose danger or opportunity?

Ben Bernanke says the US economy is yet to fully recover from impact of the global financial crisis and warns of new risks.

Up to 20,000 small businesses may have bought complex financial products from banks without properly understanding the risks, research by the BBC shows.

Your lost loved one's financial identity could come back to life in a most unsettling way -- 2.5 million deceased Americans' identities are misused every year, according to ID Analytics, an ID theft risk assessment company. The company's research arm compared the names, Social Security numbers and birthdays listed on applications for credit against the Social Security Administration's master file of deaths that came up with those numbers.

Can the precious metal calm financial markets?