Orders for manufactured goods increased in October, bucking two months of declines, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.Orders totaled $586.7 billion, up from $585.6 billion in

$15.8 million every 60 seconds. That’s how much US consumers spent in two hours on Monday night, capping off a five-day spending spree that smashed

The global economy faces proliferating risks ranging from trade tensions to wars and debt troubles that could threaten its “remarkable resilience” of past years, the

Investors’ rush into artificial intelligence stocks this year has overplayed the near-term potential of the technology, raising the risks of a “correction” in share prices,

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President Alberto Musalem said it may be appropriate to pause interest-rate cuts as soon as this month, emphasizing incoming

Deutsche Bank chief executive Christian Sewing has said that German businesses need relief on regulation and a more competitive corporate tax regime to reboot growth

Job openings in the U.S. increased in October, bucking a trend of falling vacancies for most of the past two years. The number of openings

Amazon’s cloud computing arm Amazon Web Services Tuesday announced plans for an “Ultracluster,” a massive AI supercomputer made up of hundreds of thousands of its

In Victorian London, among the factories and warehouses of the city’s East End, Alexander Parkes developed the world’s first plastic (he inventively called it Parkesine).