Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasuries held steady in January, data from the Treasury Department showed on Wednesday. Holdings of U.S. Treasuries tallied at $8.526 trillion in January, unchanged from the previous month. Compared with a year earlier, Treasuries owned by…

BRUSSELS – Amazon lost its fight against a record 746 million euro ($812.4 million) fine handed out by Luxembourg’s privacy regulator four years ago as a court sided with the watchdog, according to a statement on the regulator’s website. The…

WASHINGTON-The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday, as expected, but U.S. central bank policymakers indicated they still anticipate reducing borrowing costs by half a percentage point by the end of this year in the context of slowing economic…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will on Wednesday begin accepting applications from farmers affected by low commodity prices for economic aid passed by Congress last year, an agency official said on Tuesday. The stop-gap government funding package passed by Congress…

WASHINGTON-Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on Tuesday to a proposal by U.S. President Donald Trump that Russia and Ukraine cease attacking each other’s energy infrastructure for 30 days, the Kremlin said following a lengthy phone discussion between the leaders. The…

LONDON-Bill Gates is personally lobbying Trump administration officials to keep funding health programs worldwide, from childhood vaccination to HIV treatment, and warning that his foundation cannot step in to fill gaps, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The…

TOKYO -Nomura Holdings, Japan’s largest securities firm, said on Monday it has partnered with regional lender Hyakujushi Bank to boost its wealth management services. Hyakujushi Bank, based in Kagawa prefecture, will pass on some of its customer accounts, such as…

NEW YORK -Global hedge funds started to add back U.S. equities to portfolios last week following a massive selloff in Wall Street’s major indexes, an early indication of optimism about the country. Goldman Sachs said in a separate note that…

WASHINGTON- Tumbling stock markets and signs of tightening credit may make the Federal Reserve’s job even more difficult this week as U.S. central bank policymakers try to weigh whether consumer spending will suffer as households take stock of the potential…

WASHINGTON-President Donald Trump plans to release about 80,000 pages of material related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Tuesday, seeking to honor his campaign promise to provide more transparency about the shock event in Texas. “It’s…

WASHINGTON – U.S. single-family homebuilding rebounded sharply in February amid a thaw in winter weather while production at factories surged, but rising prices for raw materials because of tariffs threaten the nascent housing market and manufacturing recovery. The reports on…

Alphabet said on Tuesday it would buy Wiz for about $32 billion in its biggest deal ever, as the Google parent doubles down on cybersecurity to sharpen its edge in the cloud-computing race against Amazon.com and Microsoft. The blockbuster deal…

BOSTON- U.S. authorities on Monday said they deported a Rhode Island doctor to Lebanon last week after discovering “sympathetic photos and videos” of the former longtime leader of Hezbollah and militants in her cell phone’s deleted items folder. Dr. Rasha…

President Donald Trump has rescinded an executive order issued by his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden, that required businesses that contract with the federal government to pay workers a minimum wage of $17.75 an hour. Trump, a Republican, late on Friday…

WASHINGTON-U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said on Monday he had asked the government efficiency team led by Elon Musk for assistance with a number of issues, including a review of the agency’s retail center lease renewals and combating counterfeit postage….

WASHINGTON- U.S. President Donald Trump, who has ordered the release of classified documents related to the 1963 assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, said on Monday that his administration will make public around 80,000 pages of files related to…

WASHINGTON- A U.S. judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to explain whether it defied a court order by deporting hundreds of Venezuelans the White House says are violent criminals, a move officials defended but several legal experts said appeared…

TOKYO -Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway raised its holdings in five Japanese trading houses, regulatory filings showed on Monday, in the U.S. conglomerate’s latest investments in Japan’s top commodity firms that began nearly five years ago. Berkshire’s stake in Mitsui &…

NEW YORK-Global hedge funds started to add back U.S. equities to portfolios last week following a massive selloff in Wall Street’s major indexes, an early indication of optimism about the country. Goldman Sachs said in a separate note that after…

WASHINGTON -The U.S. Department of Energy said on Monday it has disbursed $57 million of an up to $1.52 billion loan guarantee for Holtec’s Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan, which the company hopes will be the first U.S. commercial reactor…

Portions of West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania were under a new tornado watch issued on Sunday by the National Weather Service, as the death toll from storms rose to at least 34 people in six states since Friday. The storms…

NEW YORK -U.S. stocks gained for a second straight session on Monday as investors sought bargains after the Nasdaq and S&P 500’s four-week tumble and assessed the latest economic data to gauge the impact of the Trump administration’s policies. Retail…

WASHINGTON/JOHANNESBURG-The U.S. has is expelling South Africa’s ambassador, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, calling the envoy a “race-baiting politician” who hates President Donald Trump. Ties have slumped since Trump cut U.S. financial aid to South Africa, citing disapproval of…

LONDON -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Saturday that Western allies other than the U.S. were stepping up preparations to support Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire with Russia, with defence chiefs set to firm up “robust plans”…

ATLANTA-At least 10 people were killed in Missouri as a series of tornadoes hit the U.S. Midwest and Southeast overnight, raking a path of destruction that was still being assessed early on Saturday, police said. Twenty-six tornadoes were reported but…

WASHINGTON-President Donald Trump’s administration gave no sign on Friday of diverting from its plan for a second wave of mass firings and budget cuts across the U.S. government after two federal court rulings ordered the reinstatement of thousands of workers….

WASHINGTON- The U.S. Department of Education on Friday said its office for civil rights is investigating 45 universities, citing complaints that the schools engaged with a program that set eligibility based on race. Since Donald Trump returned to the presidency…

WASHINGTON-U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday suspending security clearances for lawyers and other employees at New York law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and restricting their access to federal buildings and officials. “Today, President…

WASHINGTON-The Trump administration is considering issuing sweeping travel restrictions for the citizens of dozens of countries as part of a new ban, according to sources familiar with the matter and an internal memo seen by Reuters. The memo lists a…