Economies

The U.S. Department of Energy announced Thursday it will utilize the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve to address fuel shortages in Louisiana because of Hurricane Ida. The Category 4 hurricane devastated ...

By Hugo Martín From Los Angeles Times Los Angeles–A Labor Day weekend road trip is going to put ...

BRUSSELS—The United States secured a victory at the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Thursday in a case brought ...

Inflation could be repeating the trajectory of the late 1960s, which set in motion sustained high inflation in ...

By Rodolfo Delgado After a year of stress and quarantine, I decided to go to Madison Square Park, my ...

The U.S. Federal Reserve is likely to announce the tapering of its asset purchases in November and begin ...

European stocks slipped on Friday ahead of U.S. employment data that could influence the Federal Reserve's policy outlook, ...

Michael Landsbaum hit bottom after his father lost his job and couldn’t pay rent, leaving the teenager homeless ...

DUBLIN—Ryanair on Thursday said it flew 11.1 million passengers in August, 75 percent of the number the budget ...

China is set to keep a tight restraint on overseas flights well into 2022, according to analysts who ...

Another 340,000 American workers filed for unemployment last week, a historically elevated number that nonetheless marked the lowest ...

Wall Street futures edged up on Thursday as investors looked to the weekly jobless claims filings later in ...

Starting salaries for college graduates are at an all-time high despite the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent ...

U.S. residential construction spending rose in July, though at a slower pace than in the prior month, as ...

Commentary A reconfigured global elite are shaping up around a new kind of vision for transforming our world. ...

Strong order growth in America's manufacturing sector pushed the Institute for Supply Management's (ISM) factory activity gauge above forecasts, ...

The supply chain issues that have dogged some retailers in recent weeks are now leaving some British pubs ...

Private sector employment in the United States rose by 374,000 in August, sharply undershooting consensus expectations of 613,000, ...

Global factory activity lost momentum in August, just one day after GDP data showed robust manufacturing growth in the ...

Millions of Americans are set to lose their federal pandemic unemployment benefits as the Sept. 6 deadline marking ...

U.S. consumer confidence fell in August to its lowest level in six months, driven by concerns about the ...

BEIJING—China's businesses and the broader economy came under increasing pressure in August as factory activity expanded at a ...

HONG KONG—Hong Kong's government is facing growing pressure from business lobby groups to open borders or risk losing ...

Hurricane Ida shut down more than 95 percent of the Gulf of Mexico’s oil production, said regulators, suggesting the ...

New government data shows U.S. consumer spending in July grew by a lackluster 0.3 percent, a far slower ...

NEW YORK—Stocks are returning to records on Wall Street Friday after the head of the Federal Reserve said ...

The Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge, the so-called core personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index, vaulted in the 12 ...