Economic Indicators

The country's largest electric company is being ordered to excavate coal ash from all of its North Carolina power plant sites, slashing the risk of toxic chemicals leaking into water supplies but potentially adding billions of dollars to power bills.

A Northern California jury ordered Chevron Corp. to pay the families of two brothers who died of cancer a combined $21.4 million after concluding the company failed to properly warn the men about the dangers of a toxic solvent they worked with at a company-owned tire factory.

Robo-advisers have been around long enough that the question is no longer whether you should turn your investment decisions over to a computer.

The U.S. government's highway safety agency has decided to open two new investigations into fires involving Hyundai and Kia vehicles after getting complaints of more than 3,100 fires and 103 injuries.

The supply chain for some industries stands to be seriously disrupted.

Production cuts from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries helped push supply to a four-year low in March.

Credit unions, awash in cash because of their tax-exempt status, are buying banks in cash deals -- and it is resulting in the annual loss of tens of millions in tax monies.

The weak report from the Commerce Department on Monday joined a raft of other soft data, including housing starts and manufacturing production that have left economists anticipating a sharp slowdown in growth in the first quarter.

The Bank of Greece says the country is likely to miss its 2019 growth target due to growing international uncertainty and doubts over the government's commitment to long-term reforms.

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.