Economies

WASHINGTON–U.S. consumer prices were unchanged in November, held back by a sharp decline in the price of gasoline, but underlying inflation pressures remained firm amid rising rents and healthcare costs. ...

LONDON—Sterling tumbled to its weakest since April 2017 on Dec. 10 after Prime Minister Theresa May pulled a ...

BEIJING—China's massive property market is expected to cool further in 2019, with smaller price rises and falling home ...

POCATELLO, Idaho—When Sean Luangrath joined Pocatello, Idaho-based Inergy Solar a few years ago, the plan was to move ...

TOKYO—Stocks extended their slump in early Asian trade on Dec. 10, with U.S. equity futures off to a ...

WASHINGTON—U.S. businesses added a smaller yet still healthy number of jobs in Nov., while the unemployment rate remains ...

Global stock prices fell to one-week lows today, as declines by long-dated U.S. bond yields and a revival ...

ZAGREB—Croatia is suffering a severe labor shortage, most glaringly in its booming seaside tourist resorts, that is compounding ...

WASHINGTON—Tariff-driven price increases have spread more broadly through the U.S. economy, though on balance inflation has risen at ...

BEIJING—China's services sector grew at its quickest pace in five months in November thanks to an uptick in ...

The bigger picture for the BoC is that the overnight rate is still below neutral while the economy ...

Canada stands to benefit from trade-related outcomes at the G-20 as the United States and China work together ...

The G-20 meeting in Buenos Aires had one important objective: to reach a trade agreement between the United States and China. ...

In October, Wall Street gave the Federal Reserve its worst grade since Jerome Powell took the helm of ...

TOKYO/PARIS—France and Japan's leaders met for bilateral talks to avert a diplomatic row over the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance on ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—President Donald Trump said on Dec. 1 that he soon would give formal notice to the ...

NEW YORK—Wall Street rose on Nov. 30, as investors hoped for progress on trade in a critical U.S.-China ...

BUENOS AIRES—The United States, Canada, and Mexico begin a new chapter by replacing the 24-year-old North American Free Trade ...

Contracts to buy existing U.S. homes fell in October 2018, according to new figures from one of America's ...

BEIJING—Growth in China's vast manufacturing sector stalled for the first time in over two years in November as ...

SHANGHAI, China—Share markets ticked slightly lower in early Asian trade on Nov. 30 as investors await a closely ...

BUENOS AIRES—The leaders of the world’s biggest economies are gathering on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 in Argentina ...

WASHINGTON—U.S. consumer spending increased by the most in seven months in October, but underlying price pressures slowed, with ...

The federal fall fiscal update not having a roadmap to a balanced budget grabbed most of the headlines, ...

ST. LOUIS—For nearly two years the U.S. Federal Reserve has pushed ahead with steady rate increases in an ...

Cyber Monday was on track to bring in a record $7.8 billion in U.S. online sales, as millions ...

WASHINGTON—The United States and the European Union are “still continuing with negotiations on all levels,” but there is ...