4+ hour, 13+ min ago   (501+ words) U.S. futures edged lower, while oil prices gained more than 3% as worries grew over global oil supplies after Saudi Arabia shut down a major oil pipeline used to help bypass the Strait of Hormuz after it was attacked. South Korea’s Kospi…...

14+ hour, 10+ min ago   (234+ words) Trump said during the trophy ceremony for the Irish Open that he had been asked about the issue by everyone, including some of the golfers. “Everybody’s been bugging me” to do it, the Republican president said. “And I said, ‘On…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (988+ words) Employers are increasingly using technology to monitor the whereabouts, productivity and communications of workers. Some use these transparently; others do not. College administrators read an adjunct professor's comments to students on personal essays. Managers told a pharmacist to spend less…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (201+ words) The central bank for the 21 EU member countries that use the euro currency raised its benchmark rate by a quarter percentage point to 2.50% at a meeting held in Berlin, away from the bank’s Frankfurt headquarters. The bank said in an…...

4+ day, 42+ min ago   (690+ words) The future for the S&P 500 rose 0.2% and that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.4%. In Germany, the DAX fell 0.2% to 25,535.88. The CAC 40 in Paris edged 0.2% higher, while Britain's FTSE 100 lost 0.2% to 10,651.40. The price of Brent crude jumped…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (654+ words) The U.S. had already imposed 50% tariffs on about $20 billion in Canadian products — about 5% of the $381.92 billion worth of products that the country sent to the U.S. last year. The import bans announced late Tuesday target some of those products. Exporting products…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (447+ words) U.S. futures are sliding after intensifying violence in the Middle East pushed the price of crude oil over $100 a barrel. It's the first time Brent crude, the international standard, has reached triple digits in nearly six weeks. Fighting in the Middle…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (507+ words) The most heavily traded contract for a barrel of Brent crude, the international standard, settled at $97.89 before jumping 2.4% to $100.29 early Wednesday. U.S. benchmark crude gained 1.9% to $94.77 a barrel. When oil prices spike, prices of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel also rise....

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (551+ words) The S&P 500 fell 0.5%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 619 points, or 1.2%, with a little less than an hour remaining in trading, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.2% lower. They felt pressure from rising oil prices after a barrel of…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (230+ words) China imposed the curb on imports of dichlorosilane from Japan, saying its exports of the material, also known as DCS, have violated anti-dumping regulations and harmed China’s domestic industry. Beginning Tuesday, companies importing the chemical compound from Japan must provide…...