Economic Indicators

Asian shares were mostly higher Wednesday on optimism about trade after President Donald Trump said he will talk with the Chinese leader later this month in Japan.

Official figures show that inflation in Britain dipped in May, back to the Bank of England's target, amid lower air fares and car prices.

Stocks rose sharply in early trading on Wall Street Tuesday, following big gains in Europe, as investors got back their appetite for risk.

San Francisco supervisors are considering whether to move the city toward becoming the first in the United States to ban all sales of electronic cigarettes to crack down on youth vaping.

A former candidate to lead Britain's Conservative Party has thrown her support behind front-runner Boris Johnson.

The Latest on Facebook's new digital currency.

President Donald Trump says he'll hold trade talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping next week at a summit of nations in Japan.

Facebook is launching a new digital currency to make e-commerce accessible to more people around the world.

___ Facebook plans its own currency for 2 billion-plus users SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook has unveiled an ambitious plan to create a new digital currency for global use similar to Bitcoin.

Technology companies powered stocks solidly higher on Wall Street Tuesday as traders hoped that a meeting next week between President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping of China will ease trade tensions between the two economic powers.

Charitable giving by individual Americans in 2018 suffered its biggest drop since the Great Recession of 2008-09, in part because of Republican-backed changes in tax policy, according to the latest comprehensive report on Americans' giving patterns.

The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 9:35 a.m.

Cyprus' president says he believes the European Union will take a tougher line against Turkey over its bid to drill for gas in waters where the east Mediterranean island nation has exclusive economic rights.

Most economists anticipate the U.S. central bank will keep the benchmark federal funds rate at 2.25 percent to 2.5 percent.

Money is pouring in form all over the world.

Wisconsin's economic development agency has determined that Madison-based medical diagnostics firm Exact Sciences Corporation doesn't have to repay any tax credits, after the company pledged to return $61,000 for jobs created outside the state.

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi says that the eurozone's monetary authority stands ready to cut interest rates and could re-start its bond purchase stimulus program if the economy needs it.

The Federal Reserve is likely — if not certain — to leave interest rates alone when its latest policy meeting ends Wednesday.

A Brazilian court says it has accepted a petition from construction giant Odebrecht to undergo bankruptcy protection while it restructures its debts.

Jamaica's central bank thinks the country's economy is doing very well and it is using an instantly recognizable symbol of the island to get this message to the people: reggae music.