Economic Indicators

Consumer spending also fell short of expectations.

Mainland Chinese markets led Asian indexes higher on Friday, as the U.S. and China kicked off a fresh round of trade talks in Beijing.

US consumer spending edges up just 0.1 percent in January in further evidence of slowing economy.

Trade negotiators from China and the U.S. are resuming talks to try to resolve their tariff dispute over China's technology ambitions.

The Latest on China-U.S. trade talks (all times local): Chinese and U.S. negotiators have wrapped up trade talks in Beijing with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin saying they were "constructive."

'This is simply the biggest negotiation that's ever happened in the history of the world,' said TrendMacro CIO Donald Luskin.

President Donald Trump got right to it in his Michigan rally Thursday night — greatly exaggerating what's happening in the auto industry.

Germany's unemployment rate has slipped to 5.1 percent, with the labor market benefiting from a traditional springtime rebound despite a less rosy outlook for Europe's biggest economy.

Stocks rose on Wall Street in early trading Thursday as gains in banks and technology companies outweighed losses elsewhere in the market.

President Trump is taking his message on the road to Grand Rapids, Michigan for his first campaign rally since the conclusion of the Mueller report.

___ Lyft's IPO lifts off at $72 a share, valuing company at $24B SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Lyft set the price for its stock at $72 per share Thursday, setting the stage for the ride-hailing pioneer's hotly anticipated stock market debut.

Awash in corruption, plagued by a war with Russia-backed separatists, reliant on international institutions for billions of dollars in aid, Ukraine presents stern challenges for its next president.

Former Fannie Mae executive Tim Rood on the push for federal housing reform.

Facebook is being charged with housing discrimination by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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.

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.

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

A fund backed by a British billionaire investor who's a major contributor to environmental causes is backing carbon-capture research in Wyoming, the top U.S. coal-mining state.

A media company in Algeria says its owner was kidnapped by security forces and tied it to his blaming the president's brother for alleged corruption.

The upstart nation was a den of intellectual piracy.