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President Park Geun-hye was briefed by foreign, defence and unification ministers about their respective policy directions in 2016, which focused on resolving Pyongyang’s nuclear issue through stronger sanctions and pressure rather than dialogue and consultations, Xinhua...

Canada’s central bank has downgraded its economic outlook for 2016, but this was not enough incentive for it to lower the overnight rate from 0.5%.

Canada’s dollar dipped below 70 cents US on Tuesday for the first time in almost 13 years.

The Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index lost 2.4% to 2,950 and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange Composite Index tumbled 3.5% to 1,791. Imports dropped an annual 4 percent in yuan terms, an improvement over the previous month’s 5.6-percent fall.

Oil prices have collapsed to below $28 a barrel, their lowest since 2003, on a supply glut that may worsen this year with the lifting of sanctions on Iran.

Including special items, UAL reported fourth-quarter net income of $823 million. Analysts were expecting UAL to report earnings per share of $2.59 during its fourth quarter. Finally, ICON Advisers raised its stake in shares of United Continental Holdings by 5.0% in the third...

I think the explanation is largely elsewhere.

An American missionary was among the 29 killed in an Al-Qaeda attack in the West African nation of Burkina Faso Friday night, an unprecedented strike in the capital illustrating the expanding reach of regional jihadists.

The currency was traded at around 6.57 to the dollar here Wednesday, on a par with Tuesday’s rate as well as that in the onshore Shanghai yuan market. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude (WTI) rose $0.26 to $30.70 a barrel at 0108 ET.

In August, Southwestern announced it was laying off 102 employees, 80 of them in Arkansas.

China’s economy is slowing, and investors and economists alike worry it might take down the US economy with it. Just two days ago China reported – if you believe official numbers – that its GDP slowed to 6.9 percent, the worst full-year growth rate in a...

The Tennessee Natural Marriage Defense Act was described by activists as a way to reassert the state’s 2006 constitutional amendment that defined marriage as between a man and a woman.

The Pacific storm is forecast to drop rain and snow on the western United States on Tuesday as it moves onshore, it said. “In D.C., Baltimore and even Philly, if you are working Friday, leave as early as you can”. It’s just a unsafe situation, and the...

In October 2015, GM launched Let’s Drive NYC, a program to allow residents of a posh apartment building in NY access to vehicles for hire at an hourly rate.

Norfolk Southern’s board of directors has already rejected proposals from Canadian Pacific twice – including one that valued the target at about $27 billion (U.S.) in mid-December.