Trade Optimism Lifts Stocks, But 2018 Ends in Red

Trade Optimism Lifts Stocks, But 2018 Ends in Red

Equities around the world rose Monday as possible progress in resolving the trade dispute between the United States and China...

China Factory Activity Shrinks for First Time in 2 Years

China Factory Activity Shrinks for First Time in 2 Years

China’s factory activity shrank in December for the first time in more than two years, an official survey showed Monday,...

Kenyan GDP Growth at 6 Percent in Third Quarter 2018

Kenyan GDP Growth at 6 Percent in Third Quarter 2018

Kenya’s economy expanded faster in the third quarter of this year than in the same period last year due to...

The Euro Currency Turns 20 Years Old on Tuesday

The Euro Currency Turns 20 Years Old on Tuesday

The euro currency turns 20 years old on January 1, surviving two tumultuous decades and becoming the world’s No. 2...

NASA Probe to Make History New Year’s Day

NASA Probe to Make History New Year’s Day

NASA scientists are getting a very special New Year’s Day gift. The New Horizons spacecraft is moving into unexplored space...

Tiny Tracking Devices Help Protect Endangered Species From Poaching

Tiny Tracking Devices Help Protect Endangered Species From Poaching

A French technology company has created a tiny tracking device to combat poaching. The tracker is smaller, lighter and cheaper...

Trump Says ‘Big Progress’ on Possible China Trade Deal

Trump Says ‘Big Progress’ on Possible China Trade Deal

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Saturday that he had a “long and very good call” with Chinese...

Farmers Risk Loss of Federal Payments, Loans, From Shutdown

Farmers Risk Loss of Federal Payments, Loans, From Shutdown

The end of 2018 seemed to signal good things to come for America’s farmers. Fresh off the passage of the...

Hong Kong Economy Caught in US-China Trade Crossfire

Hong Kong Economy Caught in US-China Trade Crossfire

The storm winds of the recent trade war between the United States and China have settled in a truce for...

Social Media’s Year of Falling From Grace

Social Media’s Year of Falling From Grace

Silicon Valley has enjoyed years of popularity and growing markets. But 2018 has been rocky for the industry. Data breaches,...

Social Media’s Year of Falling From Grace

Social Media’s Year of Falling From Grace

For firms like Facebook and Google, 2018 brought more scrutiny of their handling of data breaches and online speech. VOA’s...

Lampert Makes $4.4 Billion Bid to Keep Sears Alive

Lampert Makes $4.4 Billion Bid to Keep Sears Alive

Sears Holdings Corp. Chairman Eddie Lampert submitted a $4.4 billion takeover bid for the bankrupt U.S. retailer, representing its only...

Strong Week, Yet Horrible Month for Wall Street

Strong Week, Yet Horrible Month for Wall Street

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

Wells Fargo Agrees to $575 Million US Settlement on Consumer Ills

Wells Fargo Agrees to $575 Million US Settlement on Consumer Ills

Wells Fargo agreed to a $575 million nationwide settlement over its opening of millions of unauthorized customer accounts and other...

US Army Looks for a Few Good Robots, Sparks Industry Battle

US Army Looks for a Few Good Robots, Sparks Industry Battle

The U.S. Army is looking for a few good robots. Not to fight — not yet, at least — but...

Cybersecurity Law: Vietnam Will Censor Internet, Not Close Websites

Cybersecurity Law: Vietnam Will Censor Internet, Not Close Websites

Expect to get caught if you post anti-government material on the internet in Vietnam or take a phishing trip. From...

US Fossil Fuel Exports Spur Growth, Climate Worries

US Fossil Fuel Exports Spur Growth, Climate Worries

In South Korea’s largest shipyard, thousands of workers in yellow hard hats move ceaselessly between towering cranes lifting hulks of...

Dow Finishes Up 1.1 Percent as US Stocks Rebound

Dow Finishes Up 1.1 Percent as US Stocks Rebound

Wall Street stocks finished solidly higher Thursday following a late-afternoon surge as worries over slowing economic growth gave way to...

Instagram ‘Back to Normal’ After Bug Triggers Temporary Change to Feed

Instagram ‘Back to Normal’ After Bug Triggers Temporary Change to Feed

Facebook Inc’s photo-sharing social network Instagram said on Thursday it has fixed a bug that led to a temporary change...

Pluto Explorer Ushering in New Year at More Distant World

Pluto Explorer Ushering in New Year at More Distant World

The spacecraft team that brought us close-ups of Pluto will ring in the new year by exploring an even more...

Source: Foxconn to Begin Assembling Top-End Apple iPhones in India in 2019

Source: Foxconn to Begin Assembling Top-End Apple iPhones in India in 2019

Apple Inc will begin assembling its top-end iPhones in India through the local unit of Foxconn as early as 2019,...

Tesla Sets up Shanghai Financial Leasing Unit as China Plans Accelerate

Tesla Sets up Shanghai Financial Leasing Unit as China Plans Accelerate

Tesla Inc has registered a financial leasing company in China, a local business registration filing shows, in the latest sign...