Economic Indicators

Shares were mostly higher Monday in subdued New Year's Eve trading.

Kim Jong Un will be keeping North Korea watchers busy on New Year's Day, when he is expected to give his annual address laying out the country's top priorities for the year ahead.

At Granny Shaffer's restaurant in Joplin, Missouri, owner Mike Wiggins is reprinting the menus to reflect the 5, 10 or 20 cents added to each item.

U.S. stocks endured wild swings last week, but were able to avoid a bear market.

The new year marks the start of numerous new state laws affecting a broad swath of life — from birth to marriage to death and, of course, taxes.

The U.S. is on track to finish the year with an annual decline in home sales for the first time since 2014.

The lower chamber of the Italian Parliament has approved a 2019 national budget that includes funding to realize campaign promises made by leaders of Italy's populist government.

America's retailers, struggling to fill jobs, have been raising pay to try to keep and attract enough employees.

There is little chance of the government shutdown ending soon.

The Environmental Protection Agency is considering backing off of its regulation of toxic mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants.

U.S. stocks veered lower Friday morning, giving back early gains as the market continued to be gripped by volatile trading.

Major U.S. stock indexes finished mostly lower Friday after another day of volatile trading.

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The euro is about to celebrate its 20th birthday, but the countries that use it are still wrestling over how the shared currency should work and how to fix flaws exposed by the debt crisis that marred its second decade.

Kosovo's government has extended a 100-percent tax on Serb imports to all international brand goods produced in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Tesla is naming Oracle's Larry Ellison and an executive from Walgreens to its board as part of a settlement with U.S. regulators who demanded more oversight of CEO Elon Musk.

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

Italy's premier has denied that the country's new budget was dictated by the European Commission, saying that he held firm on key points including a basic income for job-seekers and rollbacks in an unpopular pension reform.

It's looking increasingly like the partial government shutdown will be handed off to a divided government to solve in the new year — the first big confrontation between President Donald Trump and Democrats — as agreement eludes Washington in the waning days of the Republican monopoly on power.

Spain's national statistics office says that the country's economy grew 0.6 percent in the third quarter of 2018.