Economic Indicators

A closely watched survey is showing that the manufacturing sector across the 19-country eurozone is shrinking at its fastest rate in six years.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has urged New Zealand to provide a "fair, transparent, convenient" investment environment in a meeting with the country's prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, that comes amid a dispute over use of Chinese telecoms equipment.

The latest surveys of Japanese manufacturers pointed Monday to a slowdown for the world's third-largest economy, with demand slowing both at home and abroad.

Shares surged Monday in Asia following a bullish end to last week on Wall Street, where the benchmark S & P 500 logged its biggest quarterly gain in nearly a decade.

Federal regulators are imposing a steep cut in the herring fishery this year, and some areas of the East Coast are already restricted to fishing.

A survey of Chinese manufacturing shows activity improved in March in a possible sign government efforts to reverse an economic slowdown might be gaining traction.

It's been a fabulous start to the year for investors — as long as you ignore all those simmering worries about a possible recession.

Cyprus' finance minister says authorities will act to "neutralize" an administrative court decision that declared unconstitutional cuts to government workers' salaries that were made amid a 2012 financial crisis.

Investigators have determined that an anti-stall system automatically activated before an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max jet plunged into the ground, a newspaper reported Friday.

The Latest on Britain's exit from the European Union (all times local): 11:50 a.m.

Another person has died from shrapnel hurled by a faulty Takata air bag inflator.

Lyft had little trouble getting investors to hop on board its increasingly popular ride-hailing service, as its initial public offering fetched a $72 per-share price that exceeded even its own expectations.

A top Trump administration official is calling on the Federal Reserve to cut its key interest rate by a half-percentage point.

Hyundai has found a new problem that can cause its car engines to fail or catch fire, issuing yet another recall to fix problems that have affected more than 6 million vehicles since 2015.

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___ Lyft's shares soar as investors bet on ride-hailing future Lyft's shares soared as the company went public Friday, giving investors their first chance to bet on the future of the ride-hailing industry.

Stocks closed higher on Wall Street Friday as the market ended the first quarter with its biggest quarterly gain in a decade.

Stocks moved broadly higher on Wall Street in early trading Friday, extending gains from a day earlier.

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

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