Economies

Australia's construction industry is growing at its strongest pace in more than three years, buoyed by home building activity against the backdrop of record house prices and mortgage lending. Low ...

The cancelation of the Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline has made a tough year more difficult for Carter Knox, ...

LONG BEACH, Calif.—Kroger Co. will close two Southern California supermarkets in response to a local ordinance requiring extra ...

Astra, a startup that makes small rockets to send satellites into orbit, is going public at a valuation ...

LONDON—BP plunged to a $5.7 billion loss last year, its first in a decade, as the pandemic took ...

WASHINGTON—Globalists await President Joe Biden's reset on U.S. trade policy, although deep-seated problems and lack of consensus among ...

WASHINGTON—The coup in Burma is expected to dampen the already tepid interest of U.S. and Western companies in ...

Only three states in the union—all Republican-led—saw unemployment rates drop or remain unchanged between December 2019 and December ...

Several top posts on the highly popular WallStreetBets sub-Reddit forum have suggested that users not purchase silver, following ...

WASHINGTON—U.S. consumer spending fell for a second straight month in December amid renewed business restrictions to slow the ...

SILVER SPRING, Md.—The number of Americans who signed contracts to buy homes declined slightly for the fourth straight ...

Several major dealers of silver, gold, and other precious metals say they're encountering shortages of silver, in particular, ...

SILVER SPRING, Md.—Wages and benefits for U.S. workers rose in the last quarter of 2020, putting the entire year ...

The UK will make a formal request to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), the government ...

Josh Frydenberg says the Australian labour market has outperformed expectations but he has declined to make a new ...

Australia is reopening its doors to New Zealand travellers after health authorities gave the go-ahead. Federal Health Minister ...

Commonwealth Bank boss Matt Comyn expects scrutiny and regulatory concerns to increase for buy now, pay later providers, ...

Special Presidential Envoy for Climate of the Biden administration John Kerry said Wednesday that those workers impacted by ...

LONDON—Early signs of disruption caused by Britain's shift to its new, less open trading relationship with the European ...

LAUNCESTON, Australia—China is paying a heavy toll for its efforts to punish Australia by banning or restricting certain ...

WASHINGTON—The Federal Reserve said on Jan. 27 that the U.S. economy is a long way from recovery as ...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday that President Joe Biden believes the Nord Stream 2 natural ...

WASHINGTON—A “sense of complacency” is permeating markets as investors, betting on continued accommodative monetary policy, are stretching asset ...

WASHINGTON—New orders for key U.S.-made capital goods increased for an eighth straight month in December, pointing to solid ...

GENEVA—Some 8.8 percent of global working hours were lost last year due to the pandemic, roughly four times ...

The Canadian dollar’s strength is acting as a headwind for the country’s economic recovery, but its rally isn’t ...

WASHINGTON—U.S. consumer confidence rose moderately in January while lingering concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic led to a further ...