Economic Indicators

Despite the unwanted publicity of a criminal trial for one of their main suppliers, business is booming at Pyongyang's 'Singapore shops,' which sell everything from Ukrainian vodka to brand-name knock-offs from China.

Most Asian stock markets gained Friday while Japan edged down following Wall Street's rally at the end of a turbulent week.

Wall Street's wild Christmas week rolls on.

Wall Street started 2018 strong, buoyed by a growing economy and corporate profits.

US stocks stage big rally, erase 600 point drop in Dow Wall Street staged a swift, last-minute turnaround Thursday that rescued stocks from a steep dive and put the market on track to end a topsy-turvy, volatile week with a gain.

Stocks closed higher Thursday after a furious, late-afternoon rally erased steep losses.

US stocks stage furious late-day rally to close with gains, erasing 600-point drop in Dow Jones Industrial Average.

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

The last year was a 12-month champagne toast for the legal marijuana industry as the global market exploded and cannabis pushed its way further into the financial and cultural mainstream.

2018 was a big year in business news.

In South Korea's largest shipyard, thousands of workers in yellow hard hats move ceaselessly between towering cranes lifting hulks of steel.

Protesters have clashed with police for a third consecutive night in Tunisia after a journalist set himself on fire and died to denounce the economic problems engulfing the North African nation.

Damages for these events totaled $85 billion this year.

U.S. long-term mortgage rates fell this week, offering a slight degree of relief to would-be homebuyers after the stock market has tumbled.

Eighteen states raised their minimum wages last January, while two additional states did so in July.

Initial claims have now fallen in three of the last four weeks.

Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange was up 0.8 percent.

China's government says it has made plans with Washington for face-to-face talks in January aimed at ending a tariff battle that threatens to depress global trade.

There’s never been a better time to land a new position, according to recent employment data. Here's where the jobs will be in 2019.

Next month’s meeting would be the first in-person talks since Dec. 1.