Bloomberg Employment increased in about 80% of the largest US counties in the third quarter of 2019 from a year earlier and wages grew in 350 of 355, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. In the third quarter of 2019, average weekly wages for the nation rose to $1,093, a 3.6% increase from a year earlier. People working ...

Bloomberg US President Donald Trump met his Indian counterpart in New Delhi on Tuesday, amid growing tensions between rival protesters in the capital and with a host of critical issues from defense to regional security on the agenda. Now that the US-India trade agreement looks likely to be pushed until after the US election, news of a $3 billion military ...

Bloomberg Hosni Mubarak, who became Egypt’s longest-serving ruler in more than 150 years before being forced from office by a popular uprising, has died. He was 91. His death was announced on Tuesday by state TV. No cause was mentioned, although his family recently said he’d been hospitalised. Dubbed the “pharaoh” by his detractors, Mubarak had ruled for 30 years ...