Economic Indicators

U.S.-China trade talks affect everyone from big business to farmers.

A Minnesota environmental group filed a federal lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday, seeking to force it to make public the concerns its specialists have expressed about a copper-nickel mine in the northeast of the state.

To hear the Americans tell it, the Chinese have gone on a commercial crime spree, pilfering trade secrets from seed corn to electronic brains behind wind turbines.

It is potentially offering homebuyers a boost in affordability as Wall Street remains focused on global headwinds.

Domino's Pizza notched its 31st consecutive quarter of U.S. same-store sales growth, but at a slower pace than investors hoped.

Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticket manufactured goods posted a 1.2 percent advance in December, the best showing in four months, but much of the strength came from a surge in orders for commercial aircraft.

U.S. home sales fell 1.2 percent in January to their worst pace in more than three years, as persistent affordability problems have put a harsh chill in the real estate market.

The Trump administration is set Thursday to resume high-level talks with Chinese officials, aiming to ease a trade standoff that's unnerved global investors and clouded the outlook for the world economy.

The Latest on trade talks in Washington between the U.S. and China (all times local): 10:15 a.m.

Companies making everything from computers to construction cranes are seeing their profits hurt as the United States' trade war with China causes the world's second largest economy to slow.

The drop in January came after months of weakness in the U.S. housing market.

U.S. home sales slid 1.2 percent in January to the worst pace in more than 3 years.

Some New York lawmakers are proposing a ban on subsidies for particular companies in the wake of Amazon's decision not to build a new campus in Queens.

The International Monetary Fund's staff has agreed to support the economic policies of the Ecuadorean government with $4.2 billion over the next three years.

Fewer Americans sought unemployment benefits last week, a sign that layoffs declined and hiring is likely strong.

Applications are a proxy for layoffs, since people cannot claim benefits unless they lose a job through no fault of their own.

Applications for US unemployment benefits fell last week to a low 216,000.

Durable goods orders have been weak since August.

Top officials of the European Central Bank worried at their last meeting that the slowdown in economic growth might be "deeper and more broad-based" than previously suspected.

After GM's November announcement of a broad restructuring, including Oshawa, the union backed brief production disruptions, a call to boycott GM's Mexican-made vehicles and a "solidarity" concert for workers by British musician Sting.