WASHINGTON — Canada was hit with 35 per cent tariffs on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump followed through on his ...

A member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors announced Friday that she is resigning several months before the end of her term, handing President Donald Trump an early opportunity to fill a key ...

Mr Bessent's post on X about the outlook for trade talks with China was subsequently deleted. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Converting Social Security into millions of individual investment accounts would end the program as we know it Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent set off a firestorm this week when he said that the ...

Swiss officials plan to negotiate urgently for a lower rate, before the punishing levy takes effect next week.

The U.S. Treasury is now working on ways to use blockchain for payments and decentralized computing, according to Treasury ...

Cue the inevitable cleanup. Both Bessent and White House press spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt quickly said that these accounts would be a "supplement" to Social Security, not a replacement for it.

President Donald Trump on Thursday formalized the array of high tariff levels and trade deals he has announced in recent ...

President Donald Trump has reinstated the Presidential Fitness Test, once taken by millions of schoolchildren but phased out under Obama ...

Trump has justified tariffs on goods from Canada, the top U.S. export market, by accusing it of failing to stop the ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent triggered backlash after suggesting that newborn Trump accounts could double as a "backdoor" that could privatize the system. Rohit Chopra and Max Chafkin discuss on ...