Economic Indicators

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.

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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.

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

President Trump said he was prepared to wait as long as it takes to get $5 billion from taxpayers for his U.S.-Mexico border wall.

U.S. stocks moved broadly higher in early trading Wednesday, recovering some of their losses from a steep drop ahead of the Christmas holiday that left the benchmark S&P 500 index on the edge of what Wall Street calls a bear market.

The U.S. Forest Service is taking comments and holding a public meeting on proposed exploratory drilling for an open-pit molybdenum mine being considered in Boise National Forest in Idaho.

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Wall Street notches best day in 10 years in holiday rebound Wall Street notched its best day in 10 years as stocks rallied back Wednesday, giving some post-Christmas hope to a market that has otherwise been battered this December.