Economic Indicators

US retail sales surged 1.6% in March, fastest pace since September 2017 in a positive for economic growth.

A U.S. recession is not coming this year.

Asian stocks fell Thursday after Wall Street declined despite encouraging Chinese economic data.

Some major metro areas are starting to show signs of a shift favoring buyers.

Major U.S. stock indexes fell in morning trading Wednesday as losses by health care companies outweighed gains elsewhere in the market.

The Trump administration on Wednesday opened the door for lawsuits against foreign firms operating on properties Cuba seized from Americans after the 1959 revolution.

The U.S. economy is in excellent or good shape according to 44 percent of voters.

Gov. Tony Evers said Wednesday it's "unrealistic" to think that Foxconn Technology Group will employ 13,000 people in Wisconsin as originally promised and that he wants to renegotiate the contract with the global electronics leader.

Argentina's government is freezing the prices of 60 essential products and some services in a bid to tame spiraling inflation.

___ To some market vets, stocks are rallying like it's 1999 NEW YORK (AP) — The furious rally for stocks this year, so quickly on the heels of last year's scary tumble, is reminding some investors of the market's rebound in late 1998.

The U.S. Energy Department is asking a federal judge in Reno to dismiss the state's lawsuit challenging plutonium shipments to Nevada while an appeals court considers whether to overturn the judge's earlier refusal to temporarily block the shipments.

Stocks finished a wobbly day of trading on Wall Street Wednesday with modest losses that erased most of the market's slight gains from a day earlier.

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

The Federal Reserve says the economy was expanding at a "slight-to-moderate pace" in March and early April, with some regions seeing signs of strengthening after a winter slowdown.

All of the Fed’s 12 districts reported slight-to-moderate gains in recent months.

A Kentucky woman is suing an Indiana-based company that issued a recall last week for melon products linked to a salmonella outbreak.

The stock market has been so hot this year that it might need an ice-cold Fruitopia, or a Zima.

Poland is becoming the Silicon Valley of the EU, said Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki.

The study combined several data sources to estimate lost income and sales tax revenue due to the effect of opioid addiction on employment.

The city of Stockton is conducting a pilot program.