Economic Indicators

The Fed holds its final meeting of the year.

Asian markets rose Monday on hopes that the Federal Reserve would re-evaluate its hawkish stance at a meeting later this week, following signs of slower global growth.

GM will close three North American plants and cut 15 percent of its salaried and salaried contract workforce in the region.

A decade later, the full impact and import of that move are still not fully clear.

Yellow vest protesters are occupying dozens of traffic roundabouts in France, even as their movement for economic justice appears to be losing momentum on the fifth straight weekend of demonstrations.

While a Huawei executive faces possible U.S. charges over trade with Iran, the Chinese tech giant's ambition to be a leader in next-generation telecoms is colliding with security worries abroad.

Nevada's next attorney general Aaron (AY'-ron) Ford says finding a way to implement a stalled, voter-approved gun background check law is one of the top issues the Democrat will tackle when he takes office early next year.

President Donald Trump's relationship with the truth tends to be borderline, at best, when it comes to the border.

Trump advisor Navarro advises the Fed to stand down.

A nuclear test reactor that can melt uranium fuel rods in seconds is running again after a nearly quarter-century shutdown as U.S. officials try to revamp a fading nuclear power industry with safer fuel designs and a new generation of power plants.

China has announced a 90-day suspension of tariff hikes on $126 billion of U.S. cars, trucks and auto parts following its cease-fire in a trade battle with Washington that threatens global economic growth.

Johnson & Johnson is forcefully denying a media report that it knew for decades about the existence of trace amounts of asbestos in its baby powder.

Gov. Rick Snyder on Friday signed laws to significantly scale back citizen-initiated measures to raise Michigan's minimum wage and require paid sick leave for workers, finalizing an unprecedented Republican-backed legislative maneuver that opponents vowed to challenge in court.

Stocks are sagging Friday after weak economic data from China has investors worrying about the global economy again.

___ GM says it has 2,700 jobs for workers slated to be laid off DETROIT (AP) — The General Motors' massive 14,000-person layoff announced last month might not be as bad as originally projected.

South Carolina regulators have a couple of billion-dollar decisions to make on Friday.

The General Motors' massive 14,000-person layoff announced last month might not be as bad as originally projected.

Stocks staggered to eight-month lows Friday after weak economic data from China and Europe set off more worries about the health of the global economy.

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

The resumption of soybean sales to China is encouraging to American farmers who've seen the value of their crop plummet amid a trade war with the world's second-largest economy.