Bitcoin dropped Thursday to trade below $9,000, a critical level of support that many analysts are watching. The decline followed reports that raised worries about increased regulation in India and potential price manipulation at a major exchange.
The digital currency fell nearly 13 percent to a low around $8,810 in late...
SpaceX is seeking up to $5 million more in new state funding to build a commercial spaceport in Texas, a high-profile project that’s behind schedule after breaking ground in 2014.
The Hawthorne-based rocketbuilder is seeking the money to help build infrastructure related to the launch facility at Boca Chica beach...
The economy is on track to put up blockbuster growth numbers in the first quarter, according to the latest forecast from the Atlanta Fed.
GDP is expected to surge 5.4 percent to start 2018, the central bank branch estimated in its latest rolling look at how the economy is progressing.
If...
These are some of the best times on record for Portland’s economy.
Yet voters in the region feel worse about their community than they have in years.
Homelessness, income inequality and bad traffic have soured the public mood, according to a new poll commissioned by the Portland Business Alliance. The PBA...
Say hello to an orca, and it might say hello back — or at least try to.
An international team of researchers, working with two orcas at an aquarium in France, have found that the whales were able to replicate the sounds of human speech, including words like "hello" and...
The moon put on a rare cosmic show Wednesday: a red blue moon, super big and super bright.
It’s the first time in 35 years a blue moon has synced up with a supermoon and a total lunar eclipse, or blood moon because of its red hue.
Hawaii and Alaska had...
Officers from Hong Kong's explosive disposal unit worked through Wednesday night trying to unearth and safely defuse a suspected World War II-era bomb found in "dangerous condition" at a construction site, police said.
It is the second unexploded device to be unearthed in the Chinese territory in a week.
The new...
The world's elite are partying like it's 2006, and that should probably scare us. Top business and political leaders, who met last week in the quaint ski chalet town of Davos, Switzerland, couldn't stop talking about the booming global economy, record stock markets and President Trump's tax cuts. They...
Sure, the United States is growing at a nice clip. But Europe's economy is expanding at an even faster rate.
Economic growth in the 19 countries that use the euro currency was 2.5% in 2017, according to official data published Tuesday. Growth in the 28-member European Union also reached 2.5%...
The Food and Drug Administration is asking manufacturers of over-the-counter anti-diarrhea treatments to change the way they package their products to curb abuse by people with drug addictions.
Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in a statement Tuesday that the agency was taking the “novel” action because of growing concerns that abuse...