Economic Indicators

The agency is prepared to take further action to address an increase in “higher-risk credit characteristics” within its mortgage portfolio.

Amid all the turmoil, there's still time to celebrate for Venezuela's 1 percenters.

Poland's finance minister says she is aiming to keep the country's budget deficit within European Union rules even after a series of pre-election spending pledges to help families, young people and pensioners.

Shares tumbled in Asia on Monday after Wall Street ended last week with a broad retreat, while Thailand's market saw a moderate loss following a general election that appeared likely to keep the incumbent, junta-backed prime minister in power.

The nation's business economists foresee a sharp slowdown in U.S. economic growth over the next two years, in sharp contrast to the Trump administration's predictions that growth will accelerate this year and next.

A closely watched survey shows that business confidence in Germany, Europe's biggest economy, is improving after six months of declines.

As Ukrainians get ready for a presidential election on Sunday, millions have already voted with their feet to leave a nation mired in corruption and inequality.

Shares were sharply lower in Asia on Monday after Wall Street ended last week with a broad retreat.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is coming to Monaco and France amid mixed feelings in Europe about China's growing global influence.

A Southern California company is voluntarily recalling whole avocados over possible listeria contamination.

Prompted by the deaths of several out-of-state women, Florida lawmakers are advancing a bill to crack down on the state's cosmetic surgery industry.

Work has begun on a $3.9 billion oil refinery to be funded by a Singapore-Oman joint venture next to a Chinese-run port in what will be Sri Lanka's largest foreign investment ever.

The White House says the U.S. will host a delegation from China led by Vice Premier Liu He for meetings beginning April 3. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders also said Saturday that President Donald Trump is sending U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to Beijing next week to continue trade negotiations with China.

Italy has signed a memorandum of understanding with China in support of Beijing's "Belt and Road" initiative, which aims to weave a network of ports, bridges and power plants linking China with Africa, Europe and beyond.

Parties involved in a dispute over whether North Dakota regulators should be involved in the siting of an oil refinery near Theodore Roosevelt National Park have filed their initial legal arguments in state court.

One of the largest coal-fired power plants in the West will close this year as planned after a Navajo Nation company ended its long-shot bid Friday to acquire it.

Potentially hazardous chemicals spilled Friday at a Houston-area petrochemical tank farm where a dayslong fire damaged several tanks, the company that operates the farm said.

The local government reports the death toll in an explosion at a chemical plant in eastern China has risen to 44, with another 90 people seriously injured.

The Latest on a fire that had been burning at a Texas petrochemical storage facility (all times local): 1:45 p.m.

The political and economic crisis in Venezuela tops the agenda of President Donald Trump's meeting Friday with leaders from the Caribbean, a region that has been far from united in joining the U.S. call for the ouster of President Nicolas Maduro.