Wall Street

The steep drops over the last month have wiped out most of the big run-up.

The losses accelerated after health authorities declared the outbreak a pandemic.

President Donald Trump says he’ll ask Congress for tax relief and other quick measures.

An Associated Press survey of more than two dozen economists finds that they believe a fully healthy global economy isn't in the cards for now.

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street edged higher Wednesday following reports that the International Monetary Fund could get more cash to help countries struggling to manage their debt. Stocks got another push from a surprisingly strong report on the housing market...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Anti-Wall Street protesters along the West Coast joined an effort Monday to blockade some of the nation’s busiest docks, with the idea that if they cut off the ports, they cut into corporate profits. The protesters are targeting the locations because they believe American ports have become “economic engines for the elite...

PARIS (AP) — Enthusiasm for riskier assets such as stocks and the euro faded Monday as investors worried that Europe’s new pact aimed at fixing the continent’s debt crisis would be insufficient. Markets had rallied on Friday, when the European Union adopted a new fiscal pact meant to prevent a repeat of the financial fiasco that is now sweeping across countries that use the euro...

Stocks rose broadly in morning trading Monday on hopes for a plan to restore long-term confidence in the euro. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 140 points, led by banks. Italian bond yields dropped sharply after a new government there introduced new austerity measures aimed at restoring confidence in that country’s debt...