Economies

European shares were on course for a fifth day of gains on March 19, powered by a strong rally in automakers after Peugeot suggested Fiat Chrysler was among the options ...

NEW YORK/BOGOTA—A proposal by Colombian coffee growers' federation that producer countries sell their high-quality harvests untethered from the ...

BERLIN/FRANKFURT—Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank faced concerns from workers unions, Chancellor Angela Merkel's office and top shareholders on March ...

Canada’s federal Budget 2019 included a new program to help first-time home buyers along with other selected measures ...

  BAKU, Azerbaijan—The investments needed to ensure stability in the global oil industry are returning after a downturn, but ...

Student-loan debt in the United States has reached $1.56 trillion, half a billion more than credit-card debt. Only ...

WASHINGTON—Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin defended the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act at a congressional hearing on Mar. 14 ...

Pier 1 Imports Inc. has tapped debt restructuring lawyers to navigate potential negotiations with lenders as it struggles ...

When Gloria Álvarez gets paid in Mexican pesos, she converts whatever she can into Guatemalan quetzales. Coauthor of ...

Labor productivity in the nonfarm business sector increased at the annual pace of 1.9 percent in the last ...

OTTAWA—As widely anticipated, the Bank of Canada left its key interest rate unchanged at 1.75 percent on March ...

FRANKFURT, Germany—Carmakers are hoping to give consumers a glimpse of the future at this year’s Geneva auto show ...

WASHINGTON—The Federal Reserve is in "no rush to make a judgment" about further changes to interest rates, Fed ...

BEIJING—China's factory-gate inflation slowed for a seventh straight month in January to its weakest pace since September 2016, ...

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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 ...