Finance News

January 18, 2019

Millennial Money: Quick ways to boost your savings in 2019

Cheers, friends! It's a new year. Time to set some well-intentioned — but typically doomed — resolutions. Lose 20 pounds.

January 18, 2019

Millennial Money: Use post-holiday sales to treat yourself

Much like Santa, you spent this holiday season delivering gifts to your family members and friends. But now that the flurry ...

January 18, 2019

American Express posts 4Q profit that tops forecasts

American Express swung to a fourth-quarter profit, the credit card company said Thursday, helped by a lower tax rate and more ...

January 17, 2019

Brazil's Bolsonaro makes stumbling start as president

A few days after being inaugurated, new Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced a tax increase, only to have his ...

January 17, 2019

EU lawmakers seek cuts for nations reneging on rule of law

Amid deep concerns about the rule of law in Hungary and Poland, European Union lawmakers want to suspend EU funds to states ...

January 17, 2019

Number of federal workers seeking US jobless aid doubles

The number of furloughed federal employees seeking unemployment benefits jumped in the first two weeks of the shutdown, ...

January 17, 2019

John Bogle, founder of Vanguard, dies at 89

John C. Bogle, who simplified investing for the masses by launching the first index mutual fund and founded Vanguard Group, ...

January 16, 2019

Judge opens hearing on major Puerto Rico debt restructuring

A court hearing on a major restructuring of Puerto Rico's mammoth debt opened Wednesday, with protesters warning the deal ...

January 16, 2019

House Republicans question telecoms on location tracking

Several House Republicans asked T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon and Sprint how they share their users' cellphone location data, ...

January 16, 2019

Malaysia's 2018 auto sales rebounded, flat growth seen

New vehicle sales in Malaysia rebounded last year after two straight years of contraction, thanks to a three-month tax ...

January 15, 2019

Correction: NerdWallet-Government Shutdown-Mortgages story

In a story Jan. 11 about the government shutdown, The Associated Press — from an article that originally appeared on the ...

January 15, 2019

China to cut taxes, keep policy flexible to counter slowdown

China plans to slash taxes, step up spending and provide ample financing to private and small enterprises to help counter the ...

January 13, 2019

Venezuelan congress leader briefly detained amid standoff

The new head of Venezuela's increasingly defiant congress was pulled from his vehicle and briefly detained by police Sunday, ...

January 12, 2019

GOP rejected Obama's executive reach, but accepts Trump's

President Barack Obama stunned Republicans when he bypassed Congress and, relying on what he called his pen and his phone, ...

January 11, 2019

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals. None of these is legit, even though they ...

January 11, 2019

AP Interview: Catalan leader says 'No' to Spain govt budget

The Spanish government's bid to pass a national budget is doomed unless it bends to the demands of Catalonia's separatists ...

January 10, 2019

Greece, Germany put tension behind them in Merkel visit

Germany and Greece put years of tension over the painful Greek bailout program behind them Thursday, with Chancellor Angela ...

January 09, 2019

Eurozone unemployment a bright spot amid growing gloom

Unemployment across the 19-country eurozone fell in November to a decade-low rate, official figures showed Wednesday, but ...

January 08, 2019

No word on progress after 2nd day of China-US trade talks

Talks between the U.S. and China on ending their tariff war were ending their second day Tuesday without word on whether ...