Economic Indicators

Global shares are mixed after President Donald Trump signed an order imposing controls on exports to foreign telecoms companies that apparently was aimed at Chinese equipment makers.

Since last week after a dismal 10-year Treasury auction, there has been renewed speculation whether China may sell its U.S. debt in retaliation for increased tariffs on $200 billion of its exports to the United States.

Rep. Ro Khanna breaks down his plan to reform capitalism.

President Donald Trump is issuing an executive order to help protect the United States against foreign adversaries that are taking advantage of technological vulnerabilities to threaten U.S. communications systems.

China's government has criticized Washington for imposing export controls on technology sales to tech giant Huawei, saying it will "resolutely safeguard" Chinese companies.

Stocks shook off an early slump and turned higher in morning trading Wednesday, led by solid gains in Microsoft, Facebook and Google.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue says his agency is still "in the throes of constructing" an aid package for farmers hurt by retaliatory tariffs, but he is not saying when it will be ready.

Several world leaders and tech bosses are meeting in Paris to find ways to stop acts of violent extremism from being shown online.

___ Mnuchin optimistic on trade battles; Wall Street approves WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is making progress in talks with Canada and Mexico over the lifting of steel tariffs, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday.

A look at how American voters feel about the state of the U.S. economy.

The federal Bureau of Land Management on Wednesday renewed mineral rights leases for a proposed Twin Metals copper-nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota, a project that environmentalists fear would spoil the pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area.

Stocks closed solidly higher on Wall Street as traders became more hopeful that some of the U.S.'s frictions with its trading partners will ease.

A Trump administration appointee at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau who came under fire after racist comments he wrote years ago resurfaced is leaving the agency.

Toolmaker Stanley Black & Decker plans to open a manufacturing plant in North Texas and create about 500 jobs.

A state judge has ruled that North Dakota regulators properly refrained from becoming involved in a dispute over the location of an $800 million oil refinery being developed near Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Macy's is putting up its sixth consecutive quarter of rising comparable store sales thanks in part to another doubling of online sales.

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

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says the U.S. is making progress in talks with Canada and Mexico over steel tariffs, potentially overcoming a key hurdle toward approval of a trade agreement between the three countries.

The U.S.-China trade blowup was a long time coming.

U.S. regulators are proposing new tools to counter the unrelenting waves of robocalls received each year in America.