Economic Indicators

Crews have contained a large fire at a Nebraska fertilizer plant that injured three people and destroyed the plant.

The Latest on Brexit and Britain's political crisis (all times local): 10:05 a.m.

___ CEOs get $800,000 pay raise, leaving workers further behind NEW YORK (AP) — Pay for CEOs at the biggest U.S. companies climbed 7% last year, widening the chasm between the top executives and their workers, whose pay didn't rise as quickly.

U.S. stocks rebounded in morning trading on Wall Street Friday, but were still on track for a third straight week of losses.

Stocks closed higher on Wall Street Friday after modest gains erased some of the market's steep losses from a day earlier.

German auto maker Volkswagen has named a new chief executive at its factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Actor John Ratzenberger says plumbers, stone masons and truck drivers are essential to growth of the U.S. economy.

The few women who are CEOs of the largest U.S. companies typically make more money than their male counterparts but aren't close to the top of the leaderboard for pay packages.

The median sales price of a new home in the U.S. as of April was $342,200

Shareholders are still voting overwhelmingly in favor of big pay packages for CEOs, but there are more pockets of resistance eight years after "Say on Pay" became a mandatory exercise at annual meetings.

For Memorial Day travel, however, prices might not be as painful.

By law, some benefits the surviving spouse of a military member is entitled to are reduced, or outright eliminated.

China's state media has unleashed fresh attacks on the U.S. as the tariff war between world's two largest economies continues.

Asian shares were mostly lower on Friday as worries that the trade standoff between the U.S. and China might expand put investors in a selling mood.

The Latest on trade tensions between the U.S. and China (all times local): 5:45 p.m. Chinese surveillance equipment maker Hikvision says it takes U.S. concerns about its business "very seriously" and is taking measures to ensure it complies with human rights standards.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi described his first term as "filling in potholes" — shorthand for addressing the country's basic needs.

Dissatisfaction with India's lagging economy didn't deter voters from handing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist party a landslide parliamentary election victory.

NASA has launched the final stage of a four-year effort to develop a national traffic management system for drones, testing them in cities for the first time beyond the operator's line of sight.

Stocks tumbled Thursday on Wall Street as investors' anxiety over the U.S. trade spat with China increased and put the market on track for its third straight week of losses.

Shares of Tesla opened lower Thursday, a day after an influential analyst raised questions about demand for its electric vehicles and told investors that Tesla could become a restructuring story.