Economy

A rooftop is covered with solar panels at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York last February. The Trump administration is considering whether to impose tariffs on imports of solar materials.

U.S. Set To Decide In Trade Dispute Threatening Booming Solar Industry

3:17pm January 19, 2018

by Samantha Raphelson

President Trump is facing a Jan. 26 deadline to decide whether to impose tariffs on solar imports. While tariffs could help level the playing field for U.S. manfacturers, they could also raise prices.

Senator Jeff Flake on January 17, 2018 in Washington, DC.

Friday News Roundup - Domestic

1:16pm January 19, 2018

If you think your to-do list is long, consider your Senators'.

Syrian Kurds take cover from the rain after crossing the border between Syria and Turkey.

What's The Best Way To Help Refugees Land A Job?

5:39pm January 18, 2018

by Courtney Columbus

Stanford University's Immigration Policy Lab has created an algorithm to predict where a refugee has the best chance of finding employment.

What's Really The Biggest Threat To The Coal Industry

5:33pm January 18, 2018

by Stacey Vanek Smith

President Trump has talked about a war on coal. He also talks about job killing regulations on coal. He's right that the coal industry is in decline, but the biggest threat isn't regulation, it's the free market.

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Since mid-November, the value of bitcoin — shown in U.S. dollars, according to the exchange Coindesk — has rocketed up and plummeted. Grayed area denotes the daily price ranges, and the date range ends on Jan. 17.

Economy

Cryptocurrency Investors Worry, Wait After Bitcoin Price Drop

4:40pm January 18, 2018

by Asia Simone Burns

There are hundreds of digital currencies worldwide. The price of the largest, best known one just plummeted by 50 percent. Now, investors are watching for a boom — or a bust.

Economy

The Beigies

4:09pm January 18, 2018

Welcome to the Beigies, the only awards show honoring the best economic stories in the Fed's Beige Book.

Apple Plans To Create 20,000 Jobs And Build New Campus

1:24pm January 18, 2018

by Doreen McCallister

Apple says it's bringing billions of dollars back to the U.S. and using it to build a new campus and create 20,000 jobs. Analysts say the announcement is a mix of politics and economics.

Raleigh Shortlisted For Amazon HQ2; Triad And Charlotte Left Behind

12:26pm January 18, 2018

by Joseph Pisani, Associated Press

Amazon has narrowed its hunt for a second headquarters to 20 locations, concentrated among cities in the U.S. East and Midwest.

Amazon says the second headquarters will be a "full equal" to its corporate headquarters in Seattle, Wash., shown here.

Here Are The 20 Cities Still In The Running For Amazon's Second HQ

10:43am January 18, 2018

by Merrit Kennedy

Amazon says it reviewed 238 proposals in the U.S., Mexico and Canada. It says it will invest $5 billion in building the new headquarters, which could create up to 50,000 high-paying jobs.

China's manufacturing sector helped boost the country's GDP, in statistics released on Thursday. Here, a worker at a Ford manufacturing plant uses a laptop next to a car body on an assembly line in Chongqing.

China Reports Its Fastest Economic Growth In 7 Years

9:30am January 18, 2018

by Bill Chappell

China's economy, the second-largest in the world, grew by 6.9 percent in 2017. It's the first time since 2010 that the speed of China's economic growth went up rather than edging down.