U.S households see spending up, job prospects improving: New York Fed survey

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Consumers expect to boost spending in the months ahead and voiced confidence they are more likely to find a job and less likely to lose one in a strong labor market, the New York Federal Reserve reported Monday in its latest monthly survey...

Allow companies keep profits overseas? Trump Treasury could scuttle safeguard

The Trump administration is taking aim at an Obama-era regulation intended to prevent companies from avoiding U.S. taxes by shifting profits out of the country. The United States is one of the only developed nations that taxes businesses on income earned around the...

Apple might not be able to get a fingerprint reader into the iPhone 8, says analyst

A new note from KeyBanc Capital Markets analyst Andy Hargreaves suggests that Apple still hasn’t figured out a way to fit a fingerprint reader on the iPhone 8. Several reports have suggested Apple has been battling this problem, which might cause delays of the...

A Bipartisan Congress That Works? Veterans Committees Show How It’s Done

By NICHOLAS FANDOS July 10, 2017 WASHINGTON — Magnanimous hearings. Bipartisan votes. Substantial legislation on its way to becoming law. This is Congress? Something strange is happening in the staid hearing rooms of the House and Senate...