Applications for unemployment benefits for the week ending Aug. 9 fell by 3,000 to 224,000, the Labor Department reported. That’s below the 230,000 new applications that economists had forecast.

This historical drama, about efforts to clear the wrongly convicted French captain Alfred Dreyfus, brings to mind the ...

Inflation, as measured by the producer price index, shot up to 3.3% for the year ending in July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday — the largest 12-month increase since February. On a ...