The Dow Jones Industrial Average and other major indexes traded sharply mixed Thursday, as Wall Street reacted to higher-than-expected weekly unemployment claims from the Labor Department. Meanwhile, ...

Governments around the world are increasingly intervening in the private sector through industrial policies designed to help domestic sectors reach goals that markets alone are unlikely to achieve.

US industrial production fared much better than expected last month, the Federal Reserve said Friday, rising sharply as aircraft manufacturing rebounded after the end of a strike at Boeing.