Economic Indicators

How major US stock indexes fared Thursday

Stocks closed broadly higher on Wall Street Thursday as bond yields rose off their recent lows, easing concerns about a troubling drop in long-term yields over the past week.

Trade panel: Boeing got unfair US tax break, hurting Airbus

Delivering final word in a nearly 14-year standoff, a World Trade Organization body has ruled Boeing received U.S. subsidies via tax breaks from Washington state that damaged sales of aircraft made by European archrival Airbus.

EPA: No known toxic releases at flooded Superfund sites

Flooding in the Midwest temporarily cut off a Superfund site in Nebraska that stores radioactive waste and explosives, inundated another one storing toxic chemical waste in Missouri, and limited access to others, federal regulators said Wednesday.