Economic Indicators

As Small Business Week approaches, the nation's smallest companies in the aggregate are by many accounts doing fairly well.

The British government is scrapping much-criticized Brexit contracts with ferry companies, at a substantial cost to taxpayers.

Socialism is quite like robbing Peter to pay Paul—once Peter has no more money and no incentive to make and create more wealth—Paul stops getting paid. Then comes the unrest.

The $2 trillion investment could lead to cronyism, malinvestment and make-work jobs.

A college degree has long been a ticket to the U.S. middle class.

ISM's survey of companies for the index is a sign that economic growth should continue.

The results precede the release on Friday by the Labor Department of the widely anticipated jobs report.

Financial markets were mostly closed in Asia on Wednesday for holidays after Wall Street ended a wobbly trading session with meager gains.

Most likely, the Fed will provide some additional insight into how they’re assessing the current economic backdrop amid some mixed signals.

U.S. stocks were moving lower early Tuesday, dragged down by big communications companies after Google's parent company, Alphabet, reported a slowdown in revenue growth.

American and Chinese trade negotiators have begun more talks aimed at ending a tariff war after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said U.S. officials might be moving toward a decision on whether to make a deal with Beijing.

ESPN The Magazine is ending its print edition in September after 21 years.

Regulators say Los Alamos National Laboratory has not ensured sufficient nuclear safety in its operations as the New Mexico facility prepares to increase its work with plutonium.

Weak iPhone demand is still causing Apple's overall sales to shrink, despite the company's effort to emphasize services designed to bring in a steady flow of money from its 1.4 billion devices still in use.

U.S. health officials will allow Philip Morris International to sell a cigarette alternative that heats tobacco without burning it.

___ Apple's fiscal 2Q revenue, profit sag amid iPhone slump SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Weak iPhone demand is still causing Apple's overall sales to shrink, despite the company's effort to emphasize services designed to bring in a steady flow of money from its 1.4 billion devices still in use.

White House adviser Kellyanne Conway says the president is still backing conservative commentator Stephen Moore for a spot on the Federal Reserve board, and she adds she's not concerned about some of his controversial comments on women.

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

The Federal Open Market Committee meeting kicked off on Tuesday and will conclude on Wednesday.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg will kick off Facebook's annual F8 conference Tuesday with what are expected to be more details about his new "privacy-focused" vision for the social network.