U.S. economic growth slowed sharply in the fourth quarter as weak business spending and a wider trade deficit offset the fastest pace of consumer spending since 2006. Business spending on equipment had advanced at an 11 percent rate in the third quarter. The fourth-quarter weakness could reflect

President Obama and Xi Jinping, his Chinese counterpart, at the APEC summit. People naturally think of boosting exports as shipping more products to faraway lands, but when travelers come from afar to spend money here, that generates economic activity in America too. Tourism is America's largest