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Buying a car over the past year has been a wild experience. A shortage of semiconductors for vehicles since last year and persistent supply chain issues has severely curtailed the number of new cars available. And even with $5 per gallon for gas (or more),...

Markets advanced in Asia on Friday following a Wall Street rally driven by strong jobs data. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index NIK, +0.72% picked up 0.7%, and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng HSI, +0.99% rose 0.9% while the Shanghai Composite index...

Divers in Mexico have discovered the largest known underwater, flooded cave in the world. The discovery could reveal more about the pre-Hispanic, ancient community that existed in the region. The Yucatan Peninsula, where the cave is located, still holds treasures from the ancient Mayan community. The cave is made of...

LONDON — European stocks were cautiously higher on Monday after a tumultuous trading week last week. The pan-European Stoxx 600 gained 0.3% by mid-morning after an uncertain start, with construction and material stocks shedding 2% while retail...

The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits dropped to a near four-month low last week, but a record 32.9 million people were collecting unemployment checks in the third week of June, supporting expectations the labor market would take years to recover...

The number of jobs created in the U.S. is likely to rebound in January after a disappointing finish in 2017, but even it doesn’t, expect the economy to keep on truckin.’ About 171,000 jobs were probably created in the first month of the new year, according to the MarketWatch forecast. Some...

JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup said Monday that increasingly stringent capital requirements forced the firms to keep their dividend unchanged while rivals announced bumps to their quarterly payouts. Bank of America said that it was raising its quarterly...

PortMiami has been especially hard hit by the ongoing suspension by the cruise industry. The port, which has long positioned itself as the cruise capital of the world, has been working to support the cruise industry while counting on its cargo operations...

Cutting the number of Royal Marines and the ships they use to carry out beach landings would significantly undermine UK security, MPs have warned. There is speculation the government is considering axing up to 2,000 marines and the Royal Navy's two specialist landing ships in a security review. But a Commons...

The euro fell to its lowest level in two decades on Tuesday as fears of a recession in the euro zone ramped up, with gas prices soaring and the Ukraine war showing no signs of abating. The...