Economic Indicators

A midterm shake-up may be a lot worse than a volatile stock market.

Thousands of Puerto Ricans have been forced to drain their savings, close their businesses, or resign themselves to living with structural damage as they fight insurance companies over millions of dollars' worth of claims that have gone unanswered or unpaid more than a year after Hurricane Maria.

The growing trade deficit with China is hitting jobs and wages.

Philip Morris, maker of Marlboro and other major cigarette brands, is maneuvering to keep itself in business in a post-smoking world with an advertising blitz in puff-happy Japan and other tobacco-loving markets.

Dow plunges more than 400 points; global market turmoil spreads after major declines in Europe, Asia.

Business writer and best-selling author William D. Cohan is working on a book on the rise and fall of General Electric.

Dyson, the British company best known for innovative vacuum cleaners, says it will build its electric car in Singapore.

Automaker BMW says it is expanding a recall to cover 1.6 million vehicles worldwide due to possible fluid leaks that could result in a fire.

Kellogg's Honey Smacks is returning to shelves following a voluntarily recall after salmonella infected 100 people in 33 states.

Asian stocks slid on Tuesday as worries about softening Chinese growth rattled investors, following a rally that was not picked up by Wall Street overnight.

Britain's finances are in better shape than expected, helping Treasury chief Philip Hammond avoid tax increases when he delivers his budget to the House of Commons next week.

China has opened the world's longest sea-crossing bridge linking Hong Kong to the mainland in a feat of engineering that carries major economic and political significance.

U.S. stocks veered broadly lower in early trading Monday as losses in health care companies and banks outweighed gains elsewhere.

The executive director of a federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico's finances says the island is likely to receive $20 billion more than initially estimated in federal hurricane relief.

___ As Trump rails, US allies take lead in changing trade rules GENEVA (AP) — While the Trump administration and China fight over trade, Canada and the European Union are quietly trying to update the rulebook of commerce that has barely budged since the start of the internet.

A non-profit organization is at the forefront of educating women to consider working in the construction industry.

Stocks gave up an early rally Monday, giving the benchmark S&P 500 index its fourth straight loss.

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The European Union says a letter of the Italian government explaining its 2019 budget proposals has arrived, the latest step in a dispute between the two sides on the issue.

U.S. President Donald Trump wants to rip up the rulebook for global trade.