AP Business - Economy

Wall Street was slow to gain traction early as earnings season begins to wind down and with little economic news coming this week

Seeking to generate excitement around a largely lackluster economy, Chinese Premier Li Qiang is pledging to continue deepening reforms, expand free trade zones and relax market access for foreign investment

All signs point to a relatively solid holiday season for America’s small businesses

America’s employers likely kept hiring at a healthy pace last month, defying high interest rates, rising pressure on consumers and labor strikes that idled big swaths of the nation’s auto industry

The nation’s employers slowed their hiring in October, adding a modest but still decent 150,000 jobs, a sign that the labor market may be cooling but remains resilient despite high interest rates that have made borrowing much costlier for companies and consumers

Global shares have advanced after the U.S. Federal Reserve indicated it may not need to pump the brakes any harder on Wall Street and the economy

Wall Street is pointing toward early gains after the U.S. Federal Reserve indicated it may not need to pump the brakes any harder on the economy

Wall Street is piling more gains onto its rally from the day before on hopes the Federal Reserve may finally be done with its market-crunching hikes to interest rates

Employers posted 9.6 million job openings in September, up from 9.5 million in August and a sign that the U.S. job market remains strong in the face of higher interest rates

Stocks are drifting higher as Wall Street waits to hear what will come out of the Federal Reserve’s latest announcement on interest rates