Economy

This story incorporates reporting from YAHOO!Finance, devdiscourse and The Herald Bulletin.The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose slightly last week, according to the latest data from the Labor Department....

Trump Wants Lower Rates But Surging Economic Optimism Will Put Fed on Hold President Donald Trump’s signature bravado was on full display at the World Economic Forum in Davos this...

Consumer sentiment fell in January for the first time in six months, with inflation concerns and a sharp drop in perceptions of current conditions among Democratic voters driving the decline....

Target is ending its diversity, equity and inclusion programme along with other equity initiatives, the retailer has said, becoming the latest US firm to pull back these policies, meant to...

Small businesses are struggling to get up off the mat after the LA fires walloped them — and some owners are asking people to remember that not everyone affected was...

Big names like Donald Trump and David Beckham appeared at this year’s World Economic in Davos, but the topic that kept coming up in conversations at the event was AI....

America could lock out Chinese companies that use other countries to circumvent tariffs, said a top think tank chief. Companies — including Chinese ones — have been shifting some production...

Taichung, Taiwan – For one user on the Chinese social media platform, Weibo, the problem was Americans. “British people make me anxious too, but I hate Americans,” read the user’s...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has pledged cheaper prices and lower interest rates, but an economy transformed by the pandemic will make those promises difficult to keep. Economic growth ,...

President Donald Trump, speaking Thursday to the World Economic Forum, called for future interest rate cuts to follow declining oil prices, in remarks that align with the Federal Reserve’s projections...