Lower mortgage rates were insufficient to boost the US mortgage refinancing application activity, as it dropped to the lowest level in slightly more than a month - the Mortgage Bankers Association reported today.
Strong US fundamentals, namely the CPI and the Retail Sales, on Wednesday bolstered the positive US economic growth outlook, suggesting the Federal Reserve could raise interest rates as early as in March.
On Wednesday, Pierre Moscovici, the European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, stated that progress was made in Greece's talks with its international lenders, but more effort required to close the deal.
Today The Labor Department released its US consumer price data, the readings of which showed the largest increase in the figures since February 2013. The CPI edged up to 0.6%, beating the 0.3% forecast.
A driver and a bypasser are reported to be dead as a suicide bomber's motorcycle crashed into the Peshawar judges' vehicle in Pakistan.
PepsiCo posted strong quarterly results showing its earnings surged 5% amid growing demand for its healthy snacks and drinks. The net profit climbed to $19.52B from $18.59B.
The Kenyan Court of Appeal issued an order to free seven doctor's union leaders who were imprisoned during the demonstration against hospitals underinvestment that caused public health sector paralysation.
The CEO and the President of General Motors had a meeting at Opel HQ on Tuesday to discuss the partnership expansion with Peugeot Citroën by selling Opel to the French company.
According to the foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Russia is not eager to bring Crimea back to Ukraine claiming the peninsula is fully owned by the Russian Federation.
The US immigration office has taken a Mexican young man into immigrant custody as he was illegally brought to the USA as a child despite an issued work permit by the DACA during the Barack Obama administration.
The woman from Myanmar was detained in the Kuala Lumpur International Airport due to the investigation of assassination of Kim Jong Nam, half-brother of North Korean leader.
On Wednesday, Seoul lawmakers announced that two female assassins from North Korea were suspected of killing half-brother of Kim Jong Un, North Korean leader, in Malaysia.
The expunged Cardin-Lugar regulations were set to fight graft by making gas, oil and mining firms disclose payments for drilling and mining rights granted by foreign governments.
As a result, the famous YouTuber lost his reality show and access to YouTube's premium advertising service, as well as the spot in Disney's Maker Studios channel collection.
Presenter Luís Manuel Medina and producer Leo Martínez were killed on air as gunmen opened fire at the radio station located in a shopping mall in San Pedro de Macorís.
The numbers provided by the US National Snow and Ice Data Center showed that as of February 13 sea ice extent shrunk to the lowest level in satellite records kept since 1979.
Kazakhstan's foreign ministry announced that the talks on the conflict in Syria would start on February 16. The official note did not specify the reason for the delay.
After failed talks on Mantle Ridge backed CEO appointment, CSX board called for a special meeting to vote on the fund's reimbursement demands and Harrison's employment terms.
Even though OPEC members tried to cut global oil production, prices still stabilised not far in the green zone on Tuesday, amid an increase in the US shale output.
On Tuesday, the Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo expressed his doubts about US President Trump's border tax on Mexican imports would ever be realised.
Volkswagen reached preliminary deal with US regulators to pay about $1.22B to modify or buy back up to 80,000 polluting US diesel vehicles.
On Tuesday, Boeing said it would introduce its brand new 737 MAX-9 jet, the replacement of the Boeing 737 NG, for the first time already in April.
A report released by Australia's government on Tuesday showed that the country remained unable to improve lives of Australian indigenous people.
On Tuesday, four members of a separatist group were killed by Congo's police during a raid in Kinshasa; however, the group's leader managed to escape.