Economies

BEIJING—China's factory-gate inflation slowed for a seventh straight month in January to its weakest pace since September 2016, raising concerns the world's second-biggest economy may see the return of deflation ...

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LONDON—The British economy has not had a worse year since the global financial crisis and Brexit uncertainty is ...

SHANGHAI—Sales by China's retail businesses during the Lunar New Year holiday rose 8.5 percent from a year earlier, ...

After Jerome Powell became Fed chairman in 2017, this publication made the not-so-bold prediction that he would bail ...

BERLIN—Germany is facing a budget shortfall of around 25 billion euros ($29 billion) by 2023 as an economic ...

A glaring disparity between North American cities has accentuated in the past decade: housing affordability. As house prices ...

BEIJING—Activity in China's vast manufacturing sector shrank for the second straight month in January, pointing to further strains ...

WASHINGTON—The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Jan. 30 but said it would be patient in lifting ...

BEIJING—Earnings at China's industrial firms shrank for a second straight month in December, putting pressure on policymakers to ...

Walmart, America’s largest private employer, plans to hire hundreds more truck drivers in 2019 while boosting the pay ...

LONDON—Airlines that will no longer be majority owned by EU nationals once Britain leaves the European Union face ...

NEWS ANALYSIS Tax reform in Canada is badly needed and it can’t keep getting put off. On the ...

China’s economic growth in 2018 dropped to its lowest in 28 years, posting overall yearly growth of 6.6 ...

Some financial experts claim that a wave of $1.4 trillion in unpaid student loans will cause the next ...

China has offered to go on a six-year buying spree to ramp up imports from the United States ...

DONGGUAN/HONG KONG—Wang Zhishen was thrilled when Danish shipper A.P. Moller-Maersk gave him two months' paid leave, relishing the ...

Governments felt helpless and put too much faith in central banks, which relished the spotlight. Central bank heads ...

China’s exports hit their lowest point in December 2018 compared to the last two years of data, while ...

LONDON—Global stock markets and commodities took a hit on Jan. 14 after a shock contraction in Chinese trade ...

BEIJING—China plans to set a lower economic growth target of 6-6.5 percent in 2019 compared with last year's ...

WASHINGTON—The economic impact of the partial government shutdown is negligible, however, an extended shutdown could be a drag ...

Commentary For the most part in 2017 and 2018, only academics and easy-money cranks scolded the Federal Reserve ...

For decades, the Federal Reserve has run not on a gold standard but on a Ph.D. standard. Academics ...

The fall in oil prices and greater-than-expected weakness in housing markets are two developments temporarily dampening the Bank ...

BEIJING—China approved five genetically modified (GM) crops for import on Jan. 8, the first in about 18 months ...

Commentary Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and I have the same goals: better, higher paying jobs for everyone, especially ...