Economy

OTTAWA—The amount Canadians owe compared with how much they earn hit another record high last year. Statistics Canada said the amount of household credit market debt rose to 167.3 percent ...

Bank shares have been the runaway winners of the post-election U.S. stock market boom as investors wagered that ...

Businesses added 298,000 jobs in February, continuing a second month of solid job growth, according to the ADP ...

Recent data show Toronto’s housing market is heading down the same dangerous road Vancouver’s was on.

WASHINGTON—NAFTA negotiations will probably start late this year, might take about a year, and will include serious changes ...

Modern economics glorifies economies of scale. Bigger is cheaper, more efficient, better. The same principle apparently holds for ...

Everything President Donald Trump does or doesn't do causes commotion. This time, it's about economic figures. Trump may ...

Research shows that the political ideology of communism restricts innovation, today’s panacea for economic growth and long-term prosperity.

In what might be a recent record for brevity by the Bank of Canada, its March 1 statement ...

Immigrants built America into a superpower, coming first from England, then from Germany, Ireland, France, Russia, and Eastern ...

China expert Gordon Chang is best known for his book "The Coming Collapse of China," which he wrote ...

The Canadian dollar appears to be a boring currency, but its recent strength is a bit surprising and ...

The federal government’s best laid plans for boosting the economy through infrastructure spending is running into obstacles and ...

Everything is about balance. Work-life balance, balanced relationships, a balanced diet. Economists also talk a lot about balance. ...

NEW YORK—Macy's shares are soaring in morning trading, after being temporarily halted on the New York Stock Exchange ...

Many countries try to make their products more competitive in international markets. Some subsidize exports directly and indirectly (China), ...

The Federal Reserve, along with everybody else, is playing the waiting game—waiting to see what the Trump administration ...

The World Economic Forum (WEF) lasts only a few days in January, when the international elite jet into Davos, ...

Canada is in a strong fiscal position at the federal level relative to other G7 countries, but its ...

When foreign currencies fall against the dollar, it becomes clear not all countries are created equal. Japan and the ...

The Bank of Canada held its overnight rate target unchanged at 0.50 percent on Jan. 18 in the ...

WASHINGTON—The International Monetary Fund on Monday raised its forecast for the U.S. economy over the next two years, ...

DAVOS, Switzerland—At the Davos economic conference, "it's important to listen to the populists," says the founder of the ...

From wrong forecasts by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Wall Street, to wrong policies by the Federal ...

The United States could be energy independent for the first time since 1953. Declining energy imports and growing ...

President-elect Donald Trump talks tough on China and has appointed trade hawks Wilbur Ross and Peter Navarro to ...

There are people who think the financial system based on the dollar will collapse sooner rather than later. ...