Economic Indicators

Increased legal migration in exchange for a border wall makes both political and economic sense.

U.S. and Chinese negotiators have opened talks on a vexing trade war as Beijing reported its exports rebounded in January despite tariff hikes by President Donald Trump.

A Papua New Guinea police superintendent is hot on the trail of one of the many high-end cars he's trying to recover after an international summit.

Cyprus' finance minister says his government is tightening rules for the country's lucrative scheme granting passports to wealthy investors, making it ineligible to anyone who has already been rejected by another European Union country running similar plans.

Asian stocks were mixed in narrow trading on Thursday as China and the U.S. kicked off two days of trade negotiations in Beijing.

Japan's economic growth for the last three months of 2018 rebounded from a slump the previous quarter, growing at an annual rate of 1.4 percent.

China reports January exports to US fall 2.4 percent from year earlier, imports of American goods sinks 41.2 percent.

China's January exports rebound amid tensions with US, rising 9.1 percent over a year ago; imports decline 1.5 percent.

Stocks extended their gains in early trading on Wall Street Wednesday as investors remain optimistic that the U.S. and China will make more progress in resolving their trade dispute.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the state's consumers should get a piece of the billions of dollars that technology companies make off the personal data they collect.

U.S. and Chinese negotiators have begun trade talks President Donald Trump says will help decide whether he postpones a planned tariff increase on $200 billion of imports from China.

Several lawmakers are pushing a proposal to make sure airport security screeners get paid during future government shutdowns.

President Donald Trump is hailing a renaissance in U.S. auto manufacturing that has not happened.

Fifty-seven percent of voters have a positive opinion of capitalism.

___ Q&A: Should anyone worry about a $22 trillion national debt?

The government surpassed a dubious milestone this week: Its debt topped $22 trillion — that's trillion, with a "t'' — for the first time.

The FTC says romance-related scams have surged and generated more losses than any other consumer fraud reported last year.

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

With their $26.5 billion merger hanging in the balance, top executives of T-Mobile and Sprint are taking their case to Congress, arguing that joining their companies won't hurt competition or jack up consumer prices for wireless service.

Revenue for the month sank as a result of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which slashed taxes both for individuals and corporations.