Financial Markets
The feel-good era between New York property tycoon Donald Trump and Scotland's political leaders seems to have come to a dramatic end.
SHOW OF SUPPORT: German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told his Portuguese counterpart that Berlin is ready to support possible changes to Portugal's bailout program.
TRADING DOWN: China's trade data in January showed the biggest drop since 2008. Exports fell 0.5 percent from a year earlier to $149.9 billion. Imports were down 15 percent at $122.7 billion. The politically sensitive global trade surplus tripled to $27.3 billion.
South Dakota's 13,000 state workers are up for a pay raise after three years without one, but a plan outlining an across-the-board $2,300 for all public employees won't move forward this legislative session.
Idaho's House Resources and Conservation Committee voted unanimously to limit local governments' authority over oil and natural gas drilling, after energy-industry representatives raised concerns they could be regulated out of business by cities or counties.
THUMBS UP: General Motors Co. won approval from environmental authorities in central China for a new $1.1 billion assembly plant, though the company says it has not yet decided on the plan. The go-ahead is one of many required a large project.
Crystal chandeliers with a dangerous tendency to fall, single-cup coffee makers that may spray scalding liquid on users and lamps that may start fires are among the consumer products recalled this week.
Oil prices are falling with a critical bailout plan for Greece's economy in limbo, again raising the specter of bank failures in Europe.
President Barack Obama is making a strong election-year push for an economic revival "built on American manufacturing." But he faces an uphill slog, with little consensus even within his own party on how to do it.
Nissan is recalling 39,000 Versa small cars because the transmissions can be shifted out of park without the driver's foot on the brake.
Hawaii has joined what's being called a landmark $25 billion federal-state agreement with the nation's five biggest mortgage servicers.
European shippers say they are losing millions because a lengthy stretch of the Danube - one of Europe's key waterways - is stuck in the longest freeze in recent memory.
U.S. stocks fell sharply Friday, interrupting the Dow Jones industrial average's steady climb toward 13,000, after Greece hit a roadblock on its way to a critical international bailout.
Spain's new conservative government approved sweeping labor market reforms on Friday as part of a drive to revive a sick economy and solve Europe's worst unemployment nightmare.
A settlement between mortgage lenders and states over foreclosure abuses includes nearly $34 million for West Virginia.
Stock markets and the euro fell sharply Friday after Greece's crucial bailout was put on hold by its partners in the 17-nation eurozone and the leader of a small partner in the country's coalition government said he would vote against the demanded austerity measures.
