Stocks were wavering to start the holiday-shortened week as Wall Street hoped for a Santa Claus rally to lift the market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 55 points, or 0.1%. The S&P 500 was ...

The company has been expanding its self-directed brokerage platform to win more wallet share with existing banking and wealth ...

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Taiwan's government warned on Monday that opposition-led amendments to next year's budget could put national security and defence funding at risk.

Britain's economy was stagnant in the third quarter, according to revised official data released Monday, dealing a fresh blow to the Labour government.

Some tariffs are intended to secure a better trade deal in the traditional sense. But some are intended to simply punish, ...

Two-time Grand Slam doubles champion Max Purcell has taken a voluntary suspension for breaking anti-doping rules, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) said Monday.

Despite a barrage of Western sanctions and swathes of brands quitting Russia after the Kremlin launched its Ukraine offensive ...

Malaysia's 1MDB said on Monday it was suing corporate services provider Amicorp Group and its CEO Toine Knipping for more than $1 billion for allegedly facilitating more than $7 billion in fraudulent ...

Every day before dawn, Jamil Ghafori gets to work on the floor of a cramped Kabul bakery with five other men churning out thousands of traditional flatbreads -- the staple of every Afghan meal.

At least seven people died when a light aircraft crashed Sunday in a heavily forested area of Jalisco in western Mexico, local authorities reported.