Economy

Federal employees are reporting mixed feelings about President-elect Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency and its ideas to cut costs by laying off workers and enforcing return-to-office mandates. Some...

The ruble tumbled on Wednesday to its lowest level in over two years, as a mix of low oil prices, new sanctions against Russian businesses and burgeoning government spending on...

The Russian rouble has dropped to its lowest level in more than 32 months amid geopolitical risks over the escalation of the war in Ukraine and new United States sanctions....

The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation measure moved up in October, with core prices climbing 2.8 percent over the past year, underscoring the lingering challenge of stubborn inflation despite months of...

This Thanksgiving, one in nine working-age veterans is facing food insecurity, according to Feeding America.  Of the thousands of veterans surveyed by Yale School of Medicine’s Veterans Aging Cohort Study,...

Applying for jobs can be a time-consuming and frustrating process, and some job seekers are using AI to try to make it more tolerable. Guilherme, a 28-year-old based in Brazil,...

President-elect Donald Trump has two months until he takes office, but he’s already dishing out orders — and shaking the markets. On Monday, Trump took to his Truth Social platform...

As Europe prepared for the presidential election in the United States, some leaders worried they didn’t have a plan in place for a potential second Donald Trump administration. Now that...

LONDON — Faced with a clash between driving growth and going green, the new U.K. Labour government has sent a signal about its priorities: staying in power trumps all. Prime...

Europe’s politics are a mess, the economy is stalling — and its currency is taking the strain. The euro has fallen to its lowest level against the dollar in nearly...