Economy

Commentary NEW YORK—The biggest economic news of the year, so far, has been inflation—the highest in 40 years—and the Federal Reserve's (Fed's) efforts to fight it. And while there have ...

BERLIN—The head of the United Nations warned Friday that the world faces “catastrophe” because of the growing shortage ...

Home showings across the United States have fallen, according to a report by the National Association of Realtors ...

WASHINGTON/LONDON/TOKYO—Manufacturing growth is slowing worldwide as China's COVID-19 curbs and Russia's invasion of Ukraine disrupt supply chains and ...

While home prices in the United States have appreciated by more than a third over the past two ...

American consumers have never been this pessimistic about the economy, with the University of Michigan consumer confidence index ...

The Philippine Central Bank (BSP) raised its key interest rate for the second straight month to curb inflation, ...

WASHINGTON—The International Monetary Fund on Friday slashed its U.S. economic growth forecast as aggressive Federal Reserve interest rate ...

William Dudley, the former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, wrote this week in Bloomberg, that a ...

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TOKYO—Japan's annual core consumer inflation topped the central bank's target for a second straight month in May, data ...

The number of borrowers in a state of delinquency from not making their mortgage payments on time in ...

Goldman Sachs has warned investors that a midterm election season focused on inflation could prove to be a ...

Commentary  With the acknowledged national debt now a politically and economically unpayable $30 trillion (in reality, its unfunded ...

The U.S. retail industry might be at the precipice of a massive wave of bankruptcies, according to multiple ...

U.S. companies borrowed 16 percent more in May to finance their investments in equipment compared to a year ...

JACKSONVILLE, N.C.—Logging runs deep in Bobby Goodson’s lineage. A fourth-generational logger himself, Goodson told The Epoch Times that ...

WASHINGTON—U.S. consumers lodged more than quadruple the number of complaints against U.S. airlines in April compared with pre-pandemic ...

The UK government’s decision to levy a windfall tax on energy firms could damage investment in the North ...

Former Congressman and libertarian darling Ron Paul has spoken out in his weekly column to address the current ...

Wall Street's main indexes opened higher on Friday as signs of slowing economic growth and falling commodity prices ...

The demand for goods and services in the U.S. economy has suffered in recent weeks, S&P economist Chris ...

The labor market in the United States has cooled down in recent months and dropped to February 2021 levels, ...

America's banks are resilient enough to withstand even a "severe" recession with unemployment soaring to 10 percent, the ...

LONDON—The U.S. dollar slipped on Friday and was heading for its first weekly decline this month as traders ...

LONDON—Oil rose by more than $1 a barrel on Friday supported by tight supply, although crude was heading ...

LONDON—World stocks headed for their first weekly gain in a month and Wall Street was set to open ...