Economy & Trade

PG&E Corp’s announcement that it will file for bankruptcy, citing massive potential liability from deadly wildfires, puts California politicians in quandary, whether to offer a bailout or risk all...

U.K.-based international bank Barclays will likely reject opportunities to finance oil and gas drilling in the Arctic as well as other climate change threats, according to a new policy it announced Mo...

Economic growth won’t save us, not without serious cuts in government spending.

Fitch Ratings warned of possible damage to the federal government’s credit rating, not just because of broader political turmoil: “The main implication for our U.S. sovereign credit view will depend o...

Higher tariffs resulted in a smaller budget deficit in the first quarter of fiscal 2019, which confusingly lasts from October through December of last year, offsetting the decline in revenue from the...

Sears Holdings Corp’s future is in doubt as the retailer is expected to request a judge for permission to liquidate its assets after a $4.4 billion takeover offer, spearheaded by its chairman Edward L...

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The dollar struggled for traction against its peers on Tuesday, with investors increasingly convinced the Federal Reserve will not raise interest rates this year amid risks of a sharper slowdown in gl...

The two-week-old partial government shutdown could significantly reduce food stamps for nearly 40 million Americans and freeze or delay more than $140 billion in tax refunds if it extends into Februar...

And thousands of people quit their jobs to find new ones.

President TrumpDonald John TrumpDHS requesting more troops at border: report House passes legislation to re-open government despite opposition from Trump Maxine Waters: Much of my work will be undoing...

The U.S. economy added robust 312,000 jobs well above expectations in December as the labor market continues to expand even as worries grow about an economic slowdown and turbulent stock markets.  

Growth alone won't get us out of this mess.

Stocks tanked Thursday morning after Apple slashed its earnings forecast, citing an unexpected drop in global orders caused by trade tensions.

The economy has become heavily dependent on financial asset prices. Thus, the recent volatility in the stock and bond markets bear close watching.

President TrumpDonald John TrumpDOJ declines to take Arpaio fight to Supreme Court Canadian man arrested for trespassing at White House says he wanted to deliver Crown Royal to Trump Graham: Trump giv...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report last year stating that the world is quickly running out of time to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, the level widely agree...

On the surface, Noor Noor and Terry Burns don't have much in common. The former is a 28-year-old student at Cambridge, getting a degree in environmental conservation that he plans to use back home in...

Regardless of the president's Twitter bravado, this year has provided a painful lesson in how tariffs grow government and hurt the economy.

The quintet of tech stocks known as FAANG — an acronym for Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google — were once lauded as market’s darlings, included in many institutional portfolios and lauded as...