Economy

Commentary This morning's jobs numbers surprised the bond market, printing at 199,000 new jobs, slightly above the consensus market expectations of 180,000. Revisions were revised down by 35,000 jobs. Government ...

Wall Street opened lower on Friday as stronger-than-expected U.S. job growth and a drop in the unemployment rate ...

The unemployment rate fell to 3.7 percent.

Interest rates on the most common type of U.S. home loan fell for a sixth straight week to ...

BlackRock Chief Executive Larry Fink has accused Republican presidential candidates of spreading "misinformation" about the trillion-dollar asset manager ...

LONDON—The yen headed for a fourth weekly gain against the dollar on Friday, after its biggest rally in ...

LONDON—Oil benchmarks were headed for a seventh straight weekly decline on worries over a global supply surplus and ...

HONG KONG—World shares were mostly up on Friday ahead of a U.S. government jobs report, after Wall Street ...

Additional staffing and a post-pandemic focus on tax fraud have led to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and ...

U.S. applications for jobless benefits ticked up last week, but the overall number of people in the U.S. ...

The number of households to spend more than 70 percent of income on mortgage payments this year has ...

Wall Street's main indexes opened higher on Thursday, propped up by gains in Alphabet shares, while investors looked ...

LONDON—The euro grazed a three-week low on Thursday, driven by mounting expectations that the European Central Bank (ECB) ...

LONDON—Oil prices reclaimed some ground on Thursday after tumbling to a six-month low the previous day but investors ...

LONDON—Japan's long-suppressed yen surged and global bond and stock markets flinched on Thursday, as Tokyo's monetary policymakers gave ...

Intense opposition from within the government could hamper Mr. Milei's attempt to tear down the institution.

Commentary While the market is anticipating some Goldilocks outlook for the U.S. economy (probably for some other advanced ...

While the headlines often emphasize the danger of rapid innovations in artificial intelligence (AI), one economist told Congress ...

American employers added just more than 100,000 jobs in November, far below market expectations and the latest sign ...

The central bank says it wants to see ‘further and sustained easing in core inflation.’

Wall Street's main indexes opened higher on Wednesday as investors were optimistic about rate cuts from the Federal ...

LONDON—The dollar held near a two-week high on Wednesday, while the euro was weak across the board as ...

Oil prices were steady on Wednesday, as investors weighed the effectiveness of an extension in OPEC+ cuts in ...

LONDON—Global equities rose on Wednesday after U.S. employment data reinforced investors' convictions that rates may soon start to ...

Ratings agency Moody's slapped a downgrade warning on China's credit rating on Tuesday, saying costs to bail out ...

The latest government data shows that the number of job openings has fallen to its lowest level since ...

Low-quality economic growth is masking the looming debt crisis. It's a chimera that enables us to pretend that ...