Wells Fargo to pay $575 million to settle state investigations into phony accounts, other practices.

The Environmental Protection Agency is considering backing off its regulation of toxic mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants

Kosovo government has extended the 100 percent tariff to all international brand goods which are produced in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina

Wall Street capped a week of volatile trading Friday with an uneven finish and the market's first weekly gain since November

US pending home sales drop 0.7 percent in November as would-be buyers struggle to afford homes

Italy's premier denies that the new budget was dictated by the European Commission, saying that he held firm on key points like the basic income and the rollbacks in an unpopular pension reform

Stocks are wavering between small gains and losses as the market continues to churn amid the volatile trading that has gripped the market throughout December

Tesla names 2 independent board members as part of settlement with US regulators

Spain's national statistics office says that the southern European country grew 0.6 percent in the third quarter of 2018

Shutdown will almost certainly spill over to next year, when Democrats will control the House

Global stock markets rise after Wall Street's rally, Japan falls, oil prices rebound strongly

Many CenturyLink customers across the U.S. were without internet Thursday amid a lengthy outage that even affected some Verizon customers

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Elon Musk is asking a California judge to throw out a lawsuit filed against him by a British diver who accused the tech entrepreneur of falsely calling him a pedophile

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A federal investigation of a multimillion-dollar investment fraud scheme has led to criminal charges in Maryland against four women who worked for an Israel-based company

US consumer confidence falls this month to lowest level since July

US long-term mortgage rates fell this week, offering a slight degree of relief to would-be homebuyers after the stock market has tumbled

Most Asian stock markets gain, Japan edges down after Wall Street rally

Stocks rally in late afternoon, erasing big losses, but Dow, S&P still down for full year.

A Russian Cabinet official says the nation's new strategic weapon can pierce any missile defenses

London's police chief has suggested that Brexit will be costly and could have a damaging effect on public safety

China's government says it has made arrangements for trade talks with US officials in January aimed at ending a dispute that threatens to depress global trade

One of the few constants in global markets this holiday week: extreme volatility

The legal marijuana industry exploded in 2018, with legalization spreading in the U.S. and across Canada, billions invested in cannabis companies and a cannabis-based drug getting regulatory approval.

Thousands of Taiwanese are protesting for the third time in a week to demand lower taxes and the fair handling of tax disputes

The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped more than 1,000 points _ it's biggest point-gain ever _ as Wall Street notched its best day in 10 years Wednesday, rallying back from a Christmas Eve plunge

An Australian commodities trader has pleaded guilty in Chicago federal court to manipulating market prices by placing orders in the millions of dollars and canceling them within milliseconds to sell smaller orders at a profit

US holiday sales notch strongest growth in six years with Americans feeling strongly about the economy

Spend a night at a New Orleans hotel and the tax bite can exceed 15 percent. Mayor LaToya Cantrell says the taxes pull in an estimated $166 million a year, but less than 10 percent goes to city government coffers.

The FBI is grappling with a seemingly endless cycle of money laundering schemes that law enforcement officials say they're scrambling to slow through a combination of prosecution and public awareness

US home prices rose 5 percent in October, down from an annual gain of 5.2 percent in September

The Baltic nation of Estonia is engaged in the most ambitious project in governance in today's world, creating a totally digital government designed to reduce bureaucracy, increase transparency and boost economic growth

Asian stocks slip on uncertainty, US set for higher open post-Christmas

Japan is leaving the International Whaling Commission to resume commercial hunts but it will no longer hunt the animals in the Antarctic

AP FACT CHECK: Trump confuses, misleads with Christmas claims that he awarded new border wall contracts

Israeli technology company says business is booming after the chaos that erupted at Gatwick Airport last week, wreaked by rogue drones that exposed the vulnerability of major airports to outside interference

The death of a Tunisian journalist who set himself on fire to protest economic problems has prompted a protest that led to clashes with police

Japanese stocks plunge and other Asian markets decline following heavy Wall Street losses triggered by Trump's attack on US central bank

Nissan Motor Co. executive Greg Kelly has been released from detention in Japan after being granted bail over the alleged underreporting of his boss Carlos Ghosn's pay

Japan's main stock index has plunged following heavy Wall Street losses triggered by Trump's criticism of the Federal Reserve

Many small businesses will see their labor costs going up in 2019

Stocks plunged Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 653 points following President Trump's tweet attacking the Federal Reserve and its independence

Japanese stocks plunge and other Asian markets decline following heavy Wall Street losses triggered by Trump's attack on the U.S. central bank

Trump: Federal Reserve is the 'only problem our economy has'

Dow Jones industrials falls more than 600 points following President Trump's tweet criticizing Fed chairman Powell

The heirs to the Walmart company fortune have been working to make inroads with influential leaders in the black community, even as prominent civil rights groups like the NAACP and Black Lives Matter movement call for a moratorium on new charter schools.

Over half of Social Security recipients are taxed on at least part of their benefits - and the proportion is rising

The Bank of Israel's new governor says the country's financial stability should not be taken for granted in a period of "numerous changes in financial markets."

The chief of the Cyprus Association of Banks says the fact that Cypriot lenders have adopted some of the toughest anti-money laundering regulations in the world has not been fully recognized abroad.

Stock markets around the world remained under pressure Monday

President Donald Trump's largely unknown choice for acting Pentagon chief moves into the military hot seat

As government remains shut down, Trump and Democrats hold firm to their opposing views on border wall

Asian stocks mixed as Wall Street slump, partial U.S. government shutdown stem holiday cheer

South Korea says it will fine BMW $9.9 million and file a criminal complaint against the company over an allegedly botched response to dozens of engine fires

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin calls major bank CEOs in apparent attempt to stabilize jittery markets

In a flood of new releases, "Aquaman" swam ahead of "Mary Poppins Returns" and "Bumblebee" to lead the busy pre-Christmas weekend with an estimated $67.4 million over the weekend

A White House official says tension between a president and the interest-rate setting Federal Reserve is "traditional as part of our system."