Economy

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on May 8 announced $1.2 billion in contracts to help American producers and communities hit by the pandemic. The new initiative pairs suppliers of agricultural ...

Apple is preparing to reopen stores in the United States, nearly two months after the COVID-19 pandemic drove ...

SAN FRANCISCO—As many parts of the world's biggest economy begin to reopen after weeks of stay-at-home orders that ...

DALLAS—Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on May 8 got his hair cut at a Dallas salon that became a ...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said the window for sending it one's bank account information to get a ...

White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow said Friday that formal talks on the next COVID-19 stimulus package, dubbed ...

Four senators urged President Donald Trump on Thursday to suspend the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program for at least ...

More than 1,000 workers at the Tyson Foods plant in Waterloo have tested positive for the CCP virus, ...

Battering the U.S. economy, COVID-19 shutdowns and destruction of demand have erased a staggering 20.5 million jobs in ...

Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) announced a draft bill Friday that would ...

LONDON—Oil prices rose on May 8 and were on course for a second consecutive week of gains as ...

Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said Thursday that the United States needs “tens of millions more ...

As the pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the economy, more than 3 million workers in the United ...

NEW YORK—A number of restaurants and businesses deemed by officials to be "nonessential" are openly defying lockdown measures ...

Home prices have remained resilient despite the pandemic, with experts saying reduced demand has been offset by a ...

Analysts at investment banking and financial services giant Goldman Sachs believe that U.S. economic activity has likely reached ...

Airbnb Inc is laying off 25% of its workforce, or nearly 1,900 employees, the home rental startup said ...

DETROIT—Major U.S. automakers are planning to reopen North American factories within two weeks, potentially putting thousands of workers ...

WASHINGTON—The U.S. goods trade deficit increased by the most it has in more than a year in March ...

Several major supermarket chains in America have announced limits on how much meat customers can buy, citing pandemic-driven ...

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is "turbocharging" an initiative to remove global industrial supply chains from China as it weighs ...

Smithfield Foods has reopened its hog slaughterhouse in Monmouth, Illinois, after a weeklong shutdown because of COVID-19, the ...

J. Crew Group filed for bankruptcy protection on May 4 with a plan to hand over control to ...

Berkshire Hathaway, the massive conglomerate run by billionaire Warren Buffett, posted a nearly $50 billion net loss in ...

Global energy systems are experiencing their biggest shock in seventy years as the equivalent of "the entire energy ...

Members of the House Judiciary Committee called on Amazon chief Jeff Bezos to testify in an antitrust investigation ...

The slowdown at meat processing plants from the CCP virus outbreak has led to a wave of panic-shopping ...