— Net hiring has plummeted over the past three months with job gains of just 73,000 in July, 14,000 in June and 19,000 in May ...

After nearly four months of relentless gains, Wall Street took a step back, with major indexes finishing the week lower.

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Global markets are in turmoil as President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs on nearly all US trading partners loom, with a ...

For weeks, President Donald Trump was promising the world economy would change on Friday with his new tariffs in place. It ...

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The cracks in the US labour market are widening. Job creation has slowed to a crawl, unemployment is rising, and economists are warning that stagflation, the dreaded mix of slow growth and persistent ...

As the stock market reached new all-time highs, investors had plenty to juggle - both in Washington, D.C., and on Wall Street ...

The tariffs announced by President Donald Trump’s administration have raised the price of some consumer goods, including ...

There are growing signs that President Trump’s levies are filtering through to consumer prices, as companies exhaust options ...

Last year, after the unemployment rate climbed quickly in a short period of time and there were similar calls that the central bank was too late to lower rates, the Fed stepped in with a bold, ...

President Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday after a new jobs report showed a ...