Economic Indicators

Trade hostility from across the ocean was supposed to take a snip out of the U.S. lobster business, but the industry is getting a lifeline from its northern neighbor.

But moderating inflation, if sustained, could temper expectations on the pace of rate hikes in 2019.

A funny thing happened in the competition to be the most valuable public company in the U.S. Apple became the first U.S. company valued at $1 trillion in August, and Amazon briefly joined it a month later.

The minutes of the November meeting show policymakers ticking off a series of issues.

President Donald Trump is calling attention to an auto industry boom that doesn't exist.

U.S. long-term mortgage rates barely budged this week after marking the biggest drop in nearly four years a week earlier.

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

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Mike Manley says the Italian-American carmaker will build a fully electric version of the 500 city car and a compact Alfa Romeo SUV at plants in Italy.

Trade turmoil will create economic headwinds in the first half of 2019, the UBS chairman said.

The president threatened to impose tariffs on all auto imports this week.

The governor of the Bank of England says most British businesses aren't ready for a no-deal departure from the European Union.

Spending jumped 0.6 percent as households spent more on prescription drugs and utilities.

US consumer spending rises strong 0.6 percent in October, while incomes up solid 0.5 percent.

Most Asian stock markets followed Wall Street higher on Thursday after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell suggested the pace of U.S. interest rate increases might slow.

Kosovo's prime minister says a new 100 percent tariff on Serbian imports will remain until Serbia recognizes his country's sovereignty and stops preventing it from joining international organizations.

German unemployment fell in November by more than expected as the labor market in Europe's biggest economy remained robust.

South Korea's top court has ordered a Japanese company to compensate 10 Koreans for forced labor during Tokyo's 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.

U.S. stock indexes are rising Wednesday morning as software maker Salesforce leads a rally in technology companies.

Tiffany & Co. (TIF) on Wednesday reported fiscal third-quarter net income of $94.9 million.

Michigan's Republican-led Legislature began voting Wednesday on bills that would substantially scale back citizen-initiated minimum wage and paid sick leave laws that a business lobby criticized as too expensive and burdensome, setting up expected court challenges.