The Wire (Associated Press)
http://customwire.ap.org/
Follow your local news as your newspaper gets it. It's hard to stay more current than this.

Yahoo! Business News
http://biz.yahoo.com/
A rich collection of news resources focused around topics and major news stories. A good place to start when you don't know what to look for.

South-Western Finance in the News
http://www.swlearning.com/finance/finance_news/finance_news_main.html
A shameless plug, but a site worth taking a look at—monthly summaries of key finance news stories, organized by the topics of your course.

CNET News
http://www.news.com/

Africa News
http://allafrica.com/

China Daily
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/

CNN Money
http://money.cnn.com/

Reuters Financial News
http://biz.yahoo.com/rf

INVESTools
http://www.investools.com

Business Wire
http://www.businesswire.com

StreetEYE News
http://www.streeteye.com

Motley Fool
http://www.fool.com/news.htm?ref=G02A01

Investor's Business Daily
http://www.investors.com