Report: US Retail Holiday Sales Best in 6 Years

Report: US Retail Holiday Sales Best in 6 Years

Retail sales in the U.S. for the 2018 holiday season were up more than 5 percent to more than $850...

Report: US Trade Team to Travel to China for Talks  

Report: US Trade Team to Travel to China for Talks  

A U.S. trade delegation will go to China the week of Jan. 7, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing two people familiar with...

Wall Street Notches Best Day in 10 Years in Holiday Rebound

Wall Street Notches Best Day in 10 Years in Holiday Rebound

Wall Street notched its best day in 10 years as stocks rallied back Wednesday, giving some post-Christmas hope to a...

Indian State to Return Unused Land to Farmers

Indian State to Return Unused Land to Farmers

Farmers in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh are getting back land that was taken from them more than a decade...

‘Tech Addicts’ Seek Solace in 12 Steps and Rehab

‘Tech Addicts’ Seek Solace in 12 Steps and Rehab

We like to say we’re addicted to our phones or an app or some new show on a streaming video...

Futuristic Fun House Transforms Traditional Games into High Tech Wonders

Futuristic Fun House Transforms Traditional Games into High Tech Wonders

Technology is very quickly changing entertainment as we know it. While some worry that people are spending too much time...

Interactive TV Lets Viewers Choose Plot and Story Lines

Interactive TV Lets Viewers Choose Plot and Story Lines

Movie and TV show endings can be a major let down, but what if you could control the storyline as...

Japan Announces IWC Withdrawal, Will Resume Commercial Whaling

Japan Announces IWC Withdrawal, Will Resume Commercial Whaling

Japan is withdrawing from the International Whaling Commission and will resume commercial whaling next year, a government spokesman said Wednesday,...

Trump Praises Treasury Secretary Mnuchin But Hits Fed Again on Rate Rises

Trump Praises Treasury Secretary Mnuchin But Hits Fed Again on Rate Rises

President Donald Trump on Tuesday expressed confidence in Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin amid worries over a weakening economy and a...

Former Nissan Executive Released from Tokyo Jail

Former Nissan Executive Released from Tokyo Jail

Former Nissan Motor Co. executive Greg Kelly was released from jail in Japan Tuesday after a Tokyo court rejected prosecutors’...

Scandal-Plagued Facebook Goes on Charm Offensive in Vietnam   

Scandal-Plagued Facebook Goes on Charm Offensive in Vietnam   

Before Facebook, Vu Kim Chi thought something was lacking in her job, which is to promote the economy in and...

US SpaceX First National Security Mission

US SpaceX First National Security Mission

SpaceX continues making news in 2018. The company first broke its own record from 2017 when it passed 18 launches...

Trump Blames Fed for Market Turmoil

Trump Blames Fed for Market Turmoil

U.S. stock markets fell sharply on Monday with the S&P 500 down more than two percent and the Dow off...

Euronext Has Launched an All-Cash Bid to Acquire Oslo Bors

Euronext Has Launched an All-Cash Bid to Acquire Oslo Bors

The leading pan-European stock exchange has launched a 625 million euro takeover bid to acquire the Oslo Stock Exchange. Euronext,...

S. Korea Fines BMW $9.9 Million Over Faulty Engines, Delayed Recalls

S. Korea Fines BMW $9.9 Million Over Faulty Engines, Delayed Recalls

South Korea said Monday it will fine BMW $9.9 million and will file a criminal complaint against the German automaker...

California Researchers Working on Tomorrow’s Battery

California Researchers Working on Tomorrow’s Battery

Batteries have been around for hundreds of years, but don’t go thinking this technology is old hat (old fashioned). Batteries...

US Treasury Chief Convenes Calls With Top US Bankers

US Treasury Chief Convenes Calls With Top US Bankers

The U.S. Treasury Secretary said on Sunday he had held a series of phone conversations with top American bankers in...

Trump Aide: White House, Central Bank Tension not Unusual

Trump Aide: White House, Central Bank Tension not Unusual

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

China Holds Second Vice Ministerial Call with US on Trade

China Holds Second Vice Ministerial Call with US on Trade

China and the United States held a vice ministerial-level call on Friday, the second such contact in a week, achieving...

A Small Device with a Big Impact for Blind and Visually Impaired

A Small Device with a Big Impact for Blind and Visually Impaired

Some 1.3 billion people live with some form of vision impairment, according to the World Health Organization. A team of...

Federal Shutdown Compounds Risks for US Economy 

Federal Shutdown Compounds Risks for US Economy 

Now in its 10th year, America’s economic expansion still looks sturdy. Yet the partial shutdown of the government that began...

Spacex Halts Launch of US Military Satellite due to Winds

Spacex Halts Launch of US Military Satellite due to Winds

Elon Musk’s SpaceX scrapped Saturday’s launch of a long-delayed navigation satellite for the U.S. military due to strong upper-level winds....