Economic Indicators

There's one specific week where homes sell faster, and at higher prices, than those listed throughout the rest of the year.

US retail sales slumped 0.2% in February; less spending on building materials, electronics and groceries.

All three major equity averages are now up three days in a row, and the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average notched its largest one-day point and percentage gain since Feb. 15, 2019.

Shares surged Monday in Europe and Asia after the release over the weekend of encouraging manufacturing data in China that suggest government stimulus may be gaining traction.

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.

Should President Trump continue to boast about the strength of the U.S. economy ahead of the 2020 election?

___ 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.