Economic Indicators

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.

Israel's Defense Ministry says the country's military exports were $7.5 billion last year, down 18% from the previous year.

The European Union has drawn up a list of $20 billion worth of U.S. products it could tax in an escalating feud over plane industry subsidies, the EU's executive commission said Wednesday.

US trade deficit falls 3.4% to $49.4 billion in February; deficit in trade of goods with China narrows 28.2%.

Major share benchmarks were mixed in Asia on Wednesday after China announced its economy grew at a better than expected 6.4% annual pace in the last quarter.

The quarterly expansion was the second straight at that level but remained below 2018’s 6.6% full-year rate.

Hiking the tax on carried interest capital gains would discourage entrepreneurs who invest their time, energy and expertise in American businesses.

The German government has slashed its 2019 economic growth forecast for the country for the second time this year and is now predicting growth of only 0.5%.