The stock market seems optimistic that productivity has increased in the U.S. economy, even if it is hard to tell how much of ...

On December 10, the US central bank reduced its rates by a quarter of a point. Donald Trump is expected to name the successor ...

Donald Trump has hit dozens of US trading partners with new tariffs while formalising recent trade deals with others, including the UK and EU. Analysts at Yale Budget Lab estimate that, overall, the ...

For many people, the economy is a simple equation: paychecks minus expenses. When it feels like our incomes are growing faster than prices, the economy is in good shape. When they’re not, it’s lousy.

The managing partner of $6.3 billion Douglass Winthrop Advisors thinks higher inflation and tariff uncertainty could trip up ...

• The latest snapshot of the US labor market showed an unexpected rebound of 119,000 jobs in September but a loss for August and a lower total for July. The report was originally scheduled for October ...

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More than ever these days, gauging the health of the economy is almost like trying to gauge the health of Schrödinger's cat. Depending who you talk to, it is both on the upswing and trending downward, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. consumer's durability as a prop for the economy may be tested in coming weeks as family budgets, particularly among the less affluent, are stressed by rising healthcare ...

Polo Rocha has written about economics and banking for nearly a decade. Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images U.S. banks' earnings announcements begin next week, and their results could help ...

On the right side, you can see the upper diagonal heading up, while the one on the bottom falls to the ground. Now substitute upper-income Americans for the topmost diagonal, heading up and away, and ...