Finance

Stocks closed modestly higher on Wall Street Wednesday after the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged and signaled that it expects to leave them alone in 2020 December 11, 2019, 10:02 PM 2 min read Stocks closed modestly higher on Wall Street Wednesday after the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged and signaled that it […]

After the first crash of a Boeing 737 Max last year, federal safety officials estimated that there could be 15 more fatal crashes of the Max over the next few decades if Boeing didn’t fix a critical automated flight-control system. Yet the Federal Aviation Administration did not ground the plane until a second deadly crash

LONDON — Britain’s election has been like the country’s late-autumn weather: chilly and dull, with blustery outbursts. On the last day of the campaign, political leaders dashed around the U.K. on Wednesday trying to win over millions of undecided voters who will likely determine the outcome. Opinion polls suggest Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservatives have

Toyota’s top executive in North America is retiring in April By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer December 11, 2019, 11:16 PM 3 min read DETROIT — He was the face of Toyota in the U.S. during the automaker’s unintended-acceleration crisis. He steered it through the Great Recession, started and closed the youth-oriented Scion brand and

Stocks are closing higher on Wall Street after the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged and signaled that it expects to leave them alone in 2020 By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer December 11, 2019, 9:11 PM 4 min read NEW YORK — Stocks are closing higher on Wall Street after the Federal Reserve left

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged at its final meeting of the year on Wednesday, and officials signaled that they would wait to see how the economy fared before making another move. Officials penciled in no rate changes next year, according to their latest set of quarterly economic projections, and saw only

The Fed’s decision to leave rates alone follows three rate cuts earlier this year By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer December 11, 2019, 7:25 PM 4 min read WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest rate alone Wednesday and signaled that it expects to keep low rates unchanged through next year. The Fed’s

Pete Mulvihill has felt optimistic enough about selling books that he bought a third bookstore within the past two months. “The industry is much better than it was — the last four to five years have been pretty healthy,” says Mulvihill, who owns three Green Apple Books and Browser Books shops in San Francisco. The

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has become the youngest person ever to be named Time’s “person of the year December 11, 2019, 3:23 PM 2 min read Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was named Time’s “person of the year” Wednesday, becoming at age 16 the youngest person to whom the U.S. magazine has given the

Turkey’s foreign minister says Ankara could use its military forces to halt gas drilling in waters off Cyprus that it claims as its own December 11, 2019, 12:36 PM 3 min read Turkey could use its military forces to halt any exploratory gas drilling in waters off Cyprus that it claims as its own, Turkey’s