Alex Brandon | AP President Donald Trump speaks during a discussion for drug-free communities support programs, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018, in Washington. President Donald Trump said Thursday he would consider linking capital gains taxes to inflation, repeating an idea previously floated by …

Signet’s performance was buoyed by double-digit sales growth from from its e-commerce websites and strong revenue in North America. Signet has now beat sales expectations for three consecutive quarters. Moment of transition The strong results come at a moment of transition for the jewelry maker. The company said CFO Michele …

Bill Clark | CQ-Roll Call Group | Getty Images Abigail Spanberger, Democratic candidate for the 7th congressional district of Virginia, speaks during the Women’s Summit in Herndon, Va., on Saturday June 23, 2018.  The United States Postal Service said Thursday that “human error” led to it releasing a former CIA …

Kuni Takahashi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Android, Chrome and Apps at Google Inc., gestures as he speaks during the company’s Android One smartphone launch event in New Delhi, India, on Monday, Sept. 15, 2014. On the morning of March 19, Jonathan Karmel, a …

Apple is set to reveal its latest line-up of products on Sept. 12 at the Steve Jobs Theater on Apple’s campus, the company announced in an invitation to media. The event starts at 10 a.m. P.T. The company’s annual September event serves as the introduction to new iPhone models and …

Woohae Cho/Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Passengers use smartphones inside a subway train in Seoul, South Korea, in 2015.   In Norway, commuters have been seen to be able to include some travel time as part of their working day, the researchers made note of. This is not the case …

Bloomberg | Getty Images Google has expanded its Google for Jobs initiative, launched last summer, to feature a job search tool that uses AI technology. The company believes it will radically change the online job-seeking experience. Google has been criticized by a prominent U.K. lawmaker for not cooperating with Western governments …

Ismail Ferdous | Bloomberg | Getty Images Pedestrians pass a giant Turkish national flag hanging above a DenizBank AS bank branch in Istanbul, Turkey, on Tuesday, July 19, 2016. Turkey’s central bank slowed the pace of interest rate cuts at its meeting on Tuesday after the failed coup attempt triggered …

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (l) and Fiat Chrysler chairman John Elkann walk the grounds at the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 12, 2018. Shares of Amazon edged higher in the premarket Thursday, putting the …

Leah Millis | Reuters President Donald Trump pumps his fist at supporters after speaking at a Make America Great Again rally at the Civic Center in Charleston, West Virginia, August 21, 2018.  President Donald Trump is fired up about the recent stock market gains and is promising that more good …