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A woman reacts near a display board showing the plunge in the Shanghai Composite Index at a brokerage in Beijing on Thursday. The latest selloff appeared to be sparked by the Chinese Central Bank’s decision to cut the yuan reference for the eighth day in a row and by the...

Herbert Diess, chairman of Volkswagen Passenger Cars’ board, speaks during a keynote address at the 2016 CES trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 5, 2016.

The disappointing numbers come after the European Central Bank promised to extend its programme of quantitative easing, first launched in March a year ago. Given that the rate stuck at 0.9% in December, the European Central Bank will probably soon have to give up hope of a...

They are banned under a 2008 treaty for the high civilian toll they can cause.

Manufacturing, a sector feeling the brunt of an export slowdown tied to a stronger dollar, added 35,000 jobs during 2015 after adding more than 200,000 in 2014.

“Tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran will continue to escalate at least verbally”.

The Kimmel team did fib to folks on the street by telling them that the world was congratulating North Korea, and asked them to do the same, but they gladly did.

The governor’s move, among other measures, directs efforts by California agencies in stopping the leak, and it orders emergency regulations for other gas-storage facilities throughout the state.

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. – Gary Kubiak stuck to his word in naming Peyton Manning his starter even after declaring that Brock Osweiler had done nothing to deserve a demotion.

This has already been a tough year on Wall Street as the week began with a strong selloff of stocks and the Dow dropping 250 points, or 1.47 percent on Wednesday.

Thursday’s trading was the shortest duration in China’s capital market history.

Investors are reacting to the on-going row between Saudi Arabia and Iran, which has crushed any hopes that OPEC members will agree to a reduction in oil production.

As turmoil in Chinese markets batters stock prices around the world, Germany has been taking a bigger beating than most. US crude also fell over 3 percent, trading around $32.75.

USA jobs growth remained solid in December as the economy added 292,000 jobs, beating expectations.

“We think low US$30 (per barrel) is a floor, but once positioning gets so biased, anything can happen”, said Virendra Chauhan, analyst at Energy Aspects in Singapore.