Industrials

An island-wide blackout has hit Puerto Rico, which is struggling with an increasingly unstable power grid nearly seven months after Hurricane Maria hit the U.S. territory.

President Donald Trump's tariffs on imported aluminum and steel are disrupting business for hundreds of American companies that buy those metals, and many are pressing for relief.

U.S. stocks are wavering between small gains and losses in early trading Wednesday as investors size up the latest company earnings and deal news.

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

The Federal Reserve's latest survey of economic conditions around the country finds growing concern among businesses about the adverse impact higher tariffs could have on their firms and the overall economy.

Businesses expect more price increases in the months ahead, according to the central bank.

Higher mortgage rates are making the already challenging task of buying an affordable home even tougher for many Americans this spring.

A survivor of a mass shooting that killed 17 at a Florida high school is calling for a boycott of two of what he says are the biggest investors in gun manufacturers: BlackRock and The Vanguard Group.

Ford is getting into the non-emergency medical transportation business as it moves toward making money off its experimental ventures in new mobility.

Ferries to and from the Greek islands are tied up in port due to a 24-hour strike by seamen protesting reforms to their sector.

German government and union negotiators have reached a deal that should give some 2.3 million public-sector workers a wage increase averaging 7.5 percent over the next two years.

Asian stock markets followed Wall Street higher Wednesday after Beijing added to a swelling trade dispute with Washington by hiking tariffs on U.S. sorghum.

A Southwest Airlines plane made an emergency landing at Philadelphia's airport with what appears to be a damaged engine on Tuesday.

U.S. stocks moved solidly higher in early trading Tuesday, adding to the market's gains from a day earlier.

Family, friends and community leaders in Albuquerque (AL'-buh-kur-kee), New Mexico, are mourning the death of a bank executive on a Southwest Airlines flight home from a business trip to New York.

The Latest on a plane making an emergency landing in Philadelphia (all times local): 12:20 p.m. Southwest Airlines says that one of its planes heading from New York's LaGuardia Airport to Dallas' Love Field landed safely in Philadelphia.

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments about whether a rule it announced decades ago in a case involving a catalog retailer should still apply in the age of the internet.

Sun Country Airlines says it will cover some additional costs for travelers stranded in Mexico after the airline canceled flights due to a weekend snowstorm battering the Midwest.

Chicago and some Great Lakes surfers say a federal settlement inadequately punishes U.S. Steel for chemical spills into Lake Michigan.

The Latest on damage to oil pipelines and electric cables in Michigan's Straits of Mackinac (all times local): 11 a.m.