Economic Indicators

Asian markets were mixed on Thursday after China said its industrial output slowed in January and February, leaving traders waiting for assurances from Beijing.

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose 6,000 to a seasonally adjusted 229,000.

Global port operator DP World says its profit rose 10 percent in 2018 despite worldwide tensions over trade amid a trade war between China and the U.S. and fears about Britain leaving the European Union.

The former Texas congressman is rumored to be considering a run for president.

U.S. stocks opened broadly higher on Wall Street Wednesday, powered by technology and health care companies, as the market pushes for its third straight day of gains.

The European Union's chief Brexit negotiator says Britain must finally get its act together as a chaotic no-deal departure from the bloc is little more than two weeks away.

A new rallying cry among some Democrats is to "break up big tech" which has become a key talking point for Elizabeth Warren.

Venezuela's largest private food supplier says massive looting and vandalism occurred at four facilities in the city of Maracaibo during nationwide power outages, complicating efforts to distribute food and drinks to people in the area.

British lawmakers have resoundingly rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit divorce deal for a second time, leaving the country's planned March 29 departure from the bloc in chaos and doubt.

The former Starbucks CEO is thinking of running for president as a "centrist independent."

U.S. stocks closed broadly higher Wednesday as gains in health care and technology companies helped power the market to its third straight gain.

U.S. health regulators are moving ahead with a plan designed to keep e-cigarettes out of the hands of teenagers by restricting sales of most flavored products in convenience stores and online.

A national park in Wyoming is moving ahead with plans for a network of cell towers amid questions about how the National Park Service balances public safety with the experience of wilderness.

The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 9:40 a.m.

In a story March 7 about strong hiring drawing more people into the workforce, The Associated Press erroneously reported that half of men outside the workforce in 2013 cited disability or illness and that that figure is now 10 percent.

Fiat Chrysler is voluntarily recalling 862,520 vehicles in the U.S. because they don't meet the country's emission standards.

French President Emmanuel Macron will be in Kenya today in the first visit by a French leader since the East African nation's independence in 1963.

Job creation is at 45-year high, but finding skilled workers a major challenge, said NFIB president.

Ohio's governor says it seems clear that General Motors isn't planning on making a new line of vehicles at its assembly plant in the state.

Business leaders reacted with fury Wednesday after the British government unveiled a temporary tariff regime that could see higher prices on an array of imports ranging from cars to butter, if the country crashes out of the European Union later this month without a deal.