Economic Indicators

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.

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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.

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.