News

The U.S. economy had generally been considered in good shape. By Friday afternoon, some experts were predicting a recession.
After Canada failed to strike a trade deal with Washington, the president raised tariffs on some Canadian exports this week.
Russian oil poses just one problem. Business groups are flummoxed by the variety and vagueness of the American president’s ...
Renowned economist Dawie Roodt says that the incoming US tariffs are really bad news for an already fragile economy, but ...
President Donald Trump’s tariff onslaught this week left a lot of losers – from small, poor countries like Laos and Algeria ...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported earlier on Friday that the US had added 73,000 jobs in July, far lower than expected.
The New York Federal Reserve vault houses the world's largest known gold stockpile. Why demand for the historical currency ...
Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has been fired after releasing a jobs report that ...
Without evidence, Trump called the data "rigged" and implied that BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer manipulated the numbers ...
The punishing tariffs the White House has threatened leave Malaysia in a bind. The U.S. is Malaysia’s biggest investor and ...
Our founders understood this, embedding resilience not just in our Constitution, but in the operating assumptions of a ...
The U.S. goods trade deficit with Switzerland was $38.5 billion last year, a 56.9% increase over 2023, according to the ...