Economy

China is President Donald Trump’s prime target for a trade war — again. But China already put its boxing gloves on. In his first term, Trump slapped high tariffs on...

WASHINGTON —  After three successive interest rate cuts, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday made no change in its benchmark lending rate amid new economic uncertainties over the outlook for inflation and...

The Bank of Canada (BOC) has trimmed its key policy rate by 25 basis points to 3 percent, cut growth forecasts and warned Canadians that a tariff war triggered by...

Federal Reserve officials are expected to leave interest rates steady when they emerge from their first policy meeting of the second Trump administration Tuesday. That would most likely frustrate President...

Legal Limbo: The Case Against Unilateral Privatization of Fannie and Freddie When we argued last week that the Trump administration is unlikely to attempt a unilateral privatization of Fannie Mae...

Prayagraj, India – Arvind Agrawal has been running a business supplying stationery items across India for four decades in Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh state. The city is currently hosting the...

After touring flood-ravaged areas of North Carolina and the wildfire devastation in Los Angeles, President Donald Trump is threatening the organization tasked with leading federal disaster recovery. “I think we’re...

DeepSeek, a little-known Chinese startup, has sent shockwaves through the global tech sector with the release of an artificial intelligence (AI) model whose capabilities rival the creations of Google and...

David Eby, premier of British Columbia, suggested last week that Canadians might stop buying American alcohol if President Donald Trump follows through with his tariff threat against Canada. Eby has...

United States President Donald Trump has said Microsoft is among the companies considering buying TikTok so the platform can avoid a ban on national security grounds. Asked late on Monday...