Economic Indicators

China has issued an upbeat but vague promise to carry out a tariff cease-fire with Washington but gave no details that might help dispel confusion about what Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump agreed to in Argentina.

U.S. stocks declined in early trading Tuesday, giving up many of the market's gains from a day earlier.

Elm Pet Foods is the latest maker of dog food to issue a recall over elevated levels of vitamin D, which can cause kidney failure at high enough levels.

The Republican-led Michigan House was poised Tuesday to pass bills that would delay a minimum wage hike and scale back paid sick leave requirements, a lame-duck strategy that was endorsed legally by the state's conservative attorney general despite criticism that it is unconstitutional.

Ford and Volkswagen are in talks about building VW vehicles in some of Ford's U.S. factories.

The designer boutiques of Manhattan and Paris are feeling the chill of a Chinese economic slowdown that has hammered automakers and other industries.

You might have heard of the three blind mice or the itsy-bitsy spider who went up the water spout.

One of the most reliable warning signals for a recession just got a bit brighter.

The attorneys general of the District of Columbia and Maryland plan to file subpoenas Tuesday seeking records from the Trump Organization, the Internal Revenue Service and dozens of other entities as part of a lawsuit accusing Donald Trump of profiting off the presidency.

President Donald Trump promised on Twitter that tariffs would maximize the country's economic heft and "MAKE AMERICA RICH AGAIN."

___ Renewed jitters over trade send stocks, bond yields lower Stocks plunged Tuesday as the goodwill generated by a truce between the U.S. and China over trade evaporated over confusion about what the two sides had actually agreed to.

Americans are consuming less coal in 2018 than at any time since Jimmy Carter's presidency, a federal report said Tuesday, as cheap natural gas and other rival sources of energy frustrate the Trump administration's pledges to revive the U.S. coal industry.

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

Stocks tumbled Tuesday, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average down almost 800 points, as investors worried that a U.S.-China trade truce reached over the weekend wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

More U.S. beef is being recalled because it may be contaminated with salmonella.

President Donald Trump plans to meet briefly Tuesday with the heads of three leading German automakers.

The designer boutiques of Manhattan and Paris are feeling the chill of a Chinese economic slowdown that has hammered automakers and other industries.

As GM layoffs loom, the secretary is optimistic the ebb and flow of the industry will create other jobs.

The Trump administration is celebrating the 90-day truce it reached in its trade war with China as a significant breakthrough despite scant details, a hazy timetable and widespread skepticism that Beijing will yield to U.S. demands anytime soon.

Stocks slide on Wall Street as markets turn jittery again, Dow Jones Industrial Average sinks 500.