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Gold futures hit another peak early Wednesday, while silver rallied. Most active gold contracts rose as high as $4,071.50 a troy ounce, a new intraday record. They topped $4,000 for the first time on ...

A BMW car on display in Beijing. The company's sales have fallen in China. (Nicolas Asfouri/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images) Shares of BMW dropped 9% after the automaker cut its full-year profit ...

A host of alternative jobs data from Wall Street are pointing in the same direction: The U.S. labor market is losing steam. The Institute for Supply Management says services employment has shrunk for ...

WASHINGTON—Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) is calling for changes to the legal system to better protect consumers from government censorship, a move that comes weeks after he criticized the Trump ...

From a medical-device maker to marketers, companies are feeling the pinch of stalled contracts.

The European Union outlined plans to promote European adoption of and research into artificial intelligence tools to boost the bloc’s grasp of the nascent technology. The European Commission on ...

A small drop in rates in recent weeks has triggered an outsize response from borrowers.

The nation’s top four wind power states all lean Republican, including Iowa, where the president’s disdain is reverberating.

Trump’s tariffs and the government shutdown continue to affect the economy. Follow live updates on the Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq and other markets, including bitcoin and gold.

Ford stock tumbled. The Wall Street Journal reported that a fire severely damaged an aluminum plant in Oswego, N.Y., knocking a major portion of it offline until next year. The plant’s operator ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is due to speak on Thursday at a conference. (Alexandra Citrin-Safadi/WSJ) The shutdown continues, and government-issued economic data could also be postponed.