Economic Indicators

Pump prices are heading north, but consumer confidence is at its highest level in 18 years.

North Dakota regulators won't order a company to stop work on an oil refinery near Theodore Roosevelt National Park so they can study the appropriateness of the site.

AT&T and WarnerMedia are joining the ever-expanding list of companies offering a streaming video service.

Stocks extend their slump, led by drops in big technology names; Dow industrials lose 500 points, or 2 percent.

Sears is a 132-year-old American icon yet it can’t find a way to stop the bleeding.

European Union officials are working on tougher auto emissions standards aimed at fighting global warming — but which the industry cautions could hurt workers and consumers.

Across the country, America's retailers and shipping companies are looking happily forward to a robust holiday shopping season.

The Treasury Department has issued new rules on foreign investments into American companies that will give the government more power to block foreign transactions on national security grounds.

AccuWeather projects a storm surge of 10 to 15 feet in some areas of the western Florida coast.

The Latest on South Korea saying it's considering lifting sanctions against North Korea to help diplomacy (all times local): 3:10 p.m. South Korea's foreign minister says Seoul is considering lifting some of its unilateral sanctions against Pyongyang to create more momentum for diplomacy aimed at improving relations and defusing the nuclear crisis.

Hurricane Michael, which was upgraded to a Category 4 storm Wednesday, is expected to make landfall in Florida.

The U.N. office for disaster risk reduction says worldwide reported economic losses from earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, hurricanes and other climate-related disasters have been nearly $2.9 trillion over the past 20 years.

As Zimbabwe plunges into its worst economic crisis in a decade, gas lines are snaking for hours, prices are spiking and residents goggle as the new government insists that the country — somehow — has risen to middle-income status.

South African opposition parties are pushing for wider scrutiny of President Cyril Ramaphosa and his Cabinet after the resignation of a finance minister who acknowledged meeting with a business family linked to alleged corruption under the former administration.

Egypt says inflation jumped to 15.4 percent in September, a rise of more than two percentage points over the previous month.

U.S. stocks get slammed, led by large tech.

Asian shares were mostly higher in muted trading Wednesday amid continuing worries about trade tensions and slowing global economic growth.

The Trump administration’s decision to allow the year-round sale of gasoline with a higher concentration of ethanol could lower fuel prices for consumers, according to Pacific Ethanol CEO Neil Koehler.

U.S. stock indexes were mixed in early trading on Tuesday as markets continue to absorb the shakeout from last week's rapid rise in interest rates.

The decision comes as farmers have been voicing concerns over a growing trade war between the White House and China.