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WASHINGTON (AP) — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group remains on the U.S. government’s annual list of “notorious markets” that peddle counterfeit products. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative says...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes pulled further back from their record highs on Thursday after a cavalcade of industrial companies turned in weak earnings reports, blotting out a set of blowout results from big-name tech...

LONDON (AP) — Ireland’s privacy regulator says it’s investigating Facebook over the social media giant’s recent revelation that it had left hundreds of millions of user passwords exposed. The Irish Data...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. long-term mortgage rates rose this week for the fourth straight week, though they remain historically low as a spur to home sales in the spring buying season. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac says the average...

Maximizing a home down payment can make sense: The bigger the down payment, the lower the monthly mortgage bill and the better the chance of building equity more quickly. But putting too much down could leave you without enough...

DALLAS (AP) — Higher costs due partly to the grounding of its Boeing Max jets more than washed out rising ticket sales at Southwest Airlines, causing first quarter profit to drop 16% to $387 million. Southwest said Thursday that...

NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 9:35 a.m. Stocks are opening mostly lower on Wall Street as industrial and health care companies post losses. 3M sank 10% in early trading...

TOKYO (AP) — Ex-Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn leaves Japanese detention center after posting bail, court rejects prosecutors’ appeal.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticket manufactured goods rose 2.7% in March with a key category that tracks business investment decisions rising at the strongest pace in eight months. The increase in orders...