Saudi 2019 Budget Boosts Spending to Spur Sluggish Economy

Saudi 2019 Budget Boosts Spending to Spur Sluggish Economy

Saudi Arabia plans to increase state spending by 7 percent next year in an effort to spur economic growth that...

EU Urges Kosovo to Drop Tariffs as Political Tensions Mount

EU Urges Kosovo to Drop Tariffs as Political Tensions Mount

The European Union’s top diplomat called Tuesday on Kosovo to lift tariffs on goods from Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina as tensions...

Grocery Store Using Unmanned Vehicles for Delivery

Grocery Store Using Unmanned Vehicles for Delivery

U.S. supermarket chain Kroger Co said on Tuesday it has started using unmanned autonomous vehicles to deliver groceries Scottsdale, Arizona...

With Tensions Rising Between US and China, Silicon Valley Rethinks its Bonds

With Tensions Rising Between US and China, Silicon Valley Rethinks its Bonds

American tech companies have long looked to China as a key partner to help build and sell cutting-edge devices and...

Dow Takes Second Straight Two-Percent Plunge

Dow Takes Second Straight Two-Percent Plunge

Another day of big losses knocked U.S. stocks to their lowest levels in more than a year Monday. Investors dumped...

Trump Approves 2nd Round of Trade Aid Payments for US Farmers

Trump Approves 2nd Round of Trade Aid Payments for US Farmers

U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday he has authorized the second round of payments from a $12 billion aid package...

Burnout, Stress Lead More Companies to Try Four-day Work Week

Burnout, Stress Lead More Companies to Try Four-day Work Week

Work four days a week, but get paid for five? It sounds too good to be true, but companies around...

Google to Spend $1 Billion on New Campus in New York

Google to Spend $1 Billion on New Campus in New York

Alphabet’s Google is investing more than $1 billion on a new campus in New York, becoming the second major technology...

HQ Trivia, Vine Co-Founder Found Dead

HQ Trivia, Vine Co-Founder Found Dead

Colin Kroll, a tech executive who was a co-founder of the popular apps HQ Trivia and Vine, was found dead...

Guinea Bissau Women Entrepreneurs Share Ideas, Expand Business

Guinea Bissau Women Entrepreneurs Share Ideas, Expand Business

A group of young female business owners in Guinea Bissau have banded together to learn more about the business world...

Debt Threat: Business Debt, Worries About it, Are up

Debt Threat: Business Debt, Worries About it, Are up

Homeowners appear to have learned the lesson of the Great Recession about not taking on too much debt. There is...

Research Looks at Natural Fertilizer for Greener Agriculture, Cleaner Water

Research Looks at Natural Fertilizer for Greener Agriculture, Cleaner Water

Fertilizer is made of nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus. Chemical fertilizers require huge amounts of energy to produce. But there...

Project Recycles Human Urine as Fertilizer

Project Recycles Human Urine as Fertilizer

Fertilizer is made of nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus. Chemical fertilizers require huge amounts of energy to produce. But there...

Governments Agree on Rules for Implementing Climate Accord

Governments Agree on Rules for Implementing Climate Accord

After two weeks of bruising negotiations, officials from almost 200 countries agreed Saturday on universal, transparent rules that will govern...

Facebook Flaw May Have Exposed Private Photos

Facebook Flaw May Have Exposed Private Photos

Facebook says a software flaw may have exposed private photos of nearly 7 million users, the latest in a series...

Stocks Plunge to 8-month Lows on Growth Fears; J&J Nosedives

Stocks Plunge to 8-month Lows on Growth Fears; J&J Nosedives

Stocks staggered to eight-month lows Friday after weak economic data from China and Europe set off more worries about the...

Nigerian Governor: Buhari Says Economy in ‘Bad Shape’

Nigerian Governor: Buhari Says Economy in ‘Bad Shape’

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari said the country’s economy was in “bad shape,” the governor of a northwestern state told reporters Friday after a meeting...

US Budget Deficit Hits Record $204.9B for November 

US Budget Deficit Hits Record $204.9B for November 

The federal budget deficit surged to a record for the month of November of $204.9 billion, but a big part...

Stocks Lose Steam as Nerves Persist, Euro Dips

Stocks Lose Steam as Nerves Persist, Euro Dips

A gauge of world equities was little changed after giving up early gains on Thursday, continuing a pattern seen for...

Apple Deepens Austin Ties, Expands Operations East and West

Apple Deepens Austin Ties, Expands Operations East and West

Apple will build a $1 billion campus in Austin, Texas, break ground on smaller locations in Seattle, San Diego and...

Virgin Galactic’s New Flight Test to Soar Closer to Edge of Space

Virgin Galactic’s New Flight Test to Soar Closer to Edge of Space

Virgin Galactic is preparing for a new flight test Thursday that aims to fly higher and faster than before toward...

Wall Street Gains on Better Signs in US-China Trade Talks

Wall Street Gains on Better Signs in US-China Trade Talks

Wall Street stocks finished higher on Wednesday due to improved hopes for the US-China trade talks. The Dow Jones Industrial...