Economic Indicators

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first immunotherapy drug for breast cancer.

A World Bank arbitration panel ruled on Friday that Venezuela must pay U.S. oil giant ConocoPhillips more than $8 billion as compensation for a decade-old expropriation dispute.

Fiat Chrysler is recalling more than 60,000 cars and SUVs worldwide because they can keep going on cruise control or accelerate even after a driver taps the brakes.

U.S. stocks fell Friday morning as signs piled up that the global economy is hitting the brakes, headlined by a surprisingly weak report on the U.S. job market.

Stocks closed lower on Wall Street Friday, leaving the benchmark S&P 500 index with its worst weekly showing since January and its eighth loss in the last nine days.

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The unemployment rate for most major demographic groups fell in February, with the rate for Hispanic and Latino Americans hitting a record low of 4.3 percent.

Here's a look at the cities with local job markets that are booming.

Several industries endured weak hiring or job losses in February.

The decade-long bull market in stocks was fueled in no small part by the aggressive moves the Federal Reserve took after the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession to nurse the U.S. economy back to health.

Now that they again control the House, Democrats are proposing to 'fix' health care. Their solution is the same.

The industry today lacks about half a million of the skilled workers it needs, and within a decade the number of unfilled jobs in manufacturing could rise into the millions.

Investors also responded to worrying export data from China.

US housing starts jumped 18.6 percent in January, rebounding from a weak December.

The monthly jobs data is closely watched metric for U.S. economic performance.

A trade deficit may be good for the U.S. economy.

Shares tumbled Friday in Asia, led by sharp declines in Shanghai and Hong Kong, after China reported its exports plunged more than 20 percent in February from a year earlier.

The trade slump has added to pressure on Chinese leaders to make peace with Washington in their tariff fight over Beijing's technology ambitions.

China's exports to the United States fell 14.1 percent from a year earlier in the first two months of 2019 as President Donald Trump's punitive tariffs chilled demand, while sales to the rest of the world also slid.