Industrials

Germany's economy minister says "the situation is serious" regarding U.S. President Donald Trump's planned tariffs on imports of steel and that the country is in close consultation with other member countries of the European Union about it.

Amazon is seeking to woo more low-income shoppers by offering a discounted Prime membership to those on Medicaid.

With the abandoned smokestacks off the bay and ramshackle factories along 12th Street, it's easy to pin the blame for this industrial city's plight on the loss of manufacturing jobs to China and Mexico.

The shipping branch of the Danish shipping and oil group A.P. Moller-Maersk says four people are missing after "a serious fire" erupted on one of its cargo ships off the coast of Oman.

Australia and East Timor will sign a treaty that draws the first-ever maritime border between the neighbors, resolving years of bitter wrangling with a deal that carves up billions of dollars of oil and gas riches that lie beneath the Timor Sea.

___ GOP lawmakers, business groups pressure Trump on tariffs WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Paul Ryan is calling on President Donald Trump to take a 'more surgical approach' to trade and back off his threat to levy tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

U.S. stocks meandered but finished mostly higher Tuesday as retailers and industrial companies rose, and a jump in metals prices helped mining and materials companies.

How to win from Trump's tariff smack down.

The Latest on President Donald Trump's new tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum (all times local): 9:01 a.m.

Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao is acknowledging that President Donald Trump has asked Speaker Paul Ryan to block funding for a multi-billion dollar railway tunnel project that's a top priority of the Senate's top Democrat.

Target is reporting fourth-quarter earnings just shy of expectations, though revenue is better than expected.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken his campaign to one of Russia's leading industrial companies, vowing to bolster high-tech industries and improving living standards.

The Netherlands' main intelligence agency says it is seeing an increase in the volume and complexity of attempts at digital espionage, online political manipulation and moves toward sabotage of infrastructure in Europe.

China's government says it has asked for a temporary hold on a U.S. request for United Nations sanctions against ships accused of violating trade restrictions on North Korea while it studies what entities are involved.

The fight to keep tiny pollutants from reaching the dinner plate might start in the laundry room.

South Sudan's state-owned oil company has been "captured by predatory elites" and is being used to fund the country's civil war, including a government-aligned militia accused of human rights abuses, according to two investigative organizations.

The head of the Food and Drug Administration wants to more than double the number of packages his agency inspects to stem an influx of opioids coming from overseas.

Ohio's attorney general has sued the agribusiness company Monsanto alleging the company produced and sold chemical compounds known as PCBs for decades despite knowing of hazards the chemicals posed.