Ralph Orlowski | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), right, and Vitor Constancio, vice president of the European Central Bank (ECB), make notes during a news conference The European Central Bank (ECB) is set to hold steady this week as recent economic indicators …

Francois Lenoir | Reuters Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May arrives at a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium, March 22, 2018. “We are leaving the customs union, we will have an independent trade policy and we will strike trade deals around the world,” May’s spokesman said this week. That …

Joe Raedle | Getty Images Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at Mar-a-Lago resort on April 18, 2018. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Thursday that he was “not considering at all” calling a general election now, while pledging to do the utmost to clarify facts over scandals including …

ED JONES/AFP/Getty Images Pyongyang, April 15, 2018: Members of a North Korean youth league before the statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. If diplomatic talks between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un don’t produce any kind of agreement on …

Getty Images Members of the Detroit Lions take a knee during the playing of the national anthem prior to the start of the game against the Atlanta Falcons at Ford Field on September 24, 2017 in Detroit, Michigan. NFL owners, in a secret meeting last fall, expressed fears that President …

Jake Magee | The Janesville Gazette | AP Attorney Bryan Steil, a former driver for House Speaker Paul Ryan, announces he is running to succeed Ryan in Congress, Sunday, April 22, 2018, in Janesville, Wis. The Republican frontrunner in the race to fill House Speaker Paul Ryan’s seat in Wisconsin’s …

Dominick Reuter | AFP | Getty Images A Southwest Airlines jet sits on the runway at Philadelphia International Airport after it was forced to land with an engine failure, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 17, 2018. In the aftermath of Southwest Flight 1380, the Dallas-based airline responded by reportedly handing …

Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images A person holds up a pair of Snapchat Spectacles by Snap Inc. on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) in New York, March 2, 2017. Snap will unveil a new version of its …

Investors want clear and optimistic forecasts for the rest of this year from companies and they simply aren’t getting that. It’s not enough to top Wall Street’s notoriously low estimates. The EPS beat rate stands at 76.7 percent this quarter, and the average stock that has reported first quarter numbers …

Chris McGrath | Getty Images People walk past a sign offering customers a 10TL gift if they exchange more than $1,000 or euro at a currency exchange store on December 5, 2016, in Istanbul. Turkey’s lira made gains on Wednesday after the country’s central bank raised interest rates for the …