HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks were mixed Friday after North Korea fired off another missile over Japan, ratcheting up geopolitical tensions and denting investor sentiment. KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index...
Read MoreBEIJING (AP) — One of China’s biggest bitcoin exchanges says it will stop trading at the end of the month following reports regulators have ordered all Chinese exchanges for the digital currency to close. BTC China said on...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he has not made a decision yet on whether he will re-nominate Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen for another term but says he respects her “a lot.” Asked about Yellen by...
Read MoreHOUSTON (AP) — Houston’s mayor on Thursday chose the former head of U.S. operations for one of the world’s largest oil companies to lead the city’s Harvey recovery effort, hoping he’ll help make the city...
Read MoreNEW YORK (AP) — Hurricane Irma was a record-setter for The Weather Channel, too. The Nielsen company said an average of 3.29 million people watched the network on Sunday as the deadly storm blew over Florida. The network had...
Read MorePATERSON, N.J. (AP) — A man accused of being high on cleaning chemicals from an aerosol can when he crashed his pickup truck into a New Jersey farmers market, killing a woman, has been convicted of criminal charges. James...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on aviation safety recommendations (all times local): 4:10 p.m. An influential industry committee is recommending the government eliminate or scale back dozens of aviation safety rules, including one...
Read MoreNEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Trade Commission has become the latest authority to announce an investigation into the massive security breach at credit agency Equifax. The FTC said Thursday that it was opening an investigation into...
Read MoreNEW YORK (AP) — What is the sound of a stock market at a record high and nobody buying it? Even with stocks in the midst of one of their best-ever runs, investors are on pace to pull more money out of U.S. stock funds than they...
Read MoreLess than 20 percent of a 461,000-gallon (1.7-million-liter) gasoline spill in Texas during Hurricane Harvey was recovered by the company responsible, while the rest evaporated or soaked into the ground, a U.S. Coast Guard...
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