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Friday’s Jobs Report Will Be Confusing. Here’s How to Make Sense of It.
The Labor Department’s latest monthly report on hiring and unemployment will include revisions for previous months that should give a more…
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Fed Official Pushes Back on Pre-emptive Policy Moves
Federal Reserve officials wrapped up their final meeting of 2024 with splits surfacing over how many more interest rate cuts they should…
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Why These Companies in Louisville, Ky., Fear Trump’s Tariffs
The people running CRG Automation are not openly rooting for global economic chaos, but they concede that they are in a perfect position…
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Trump Tariffs Threaten to Upend Global Economic Order
President Trump’s move this weekend to slap sweeping tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China is threatening to fracture the global trading…
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From Groceries to Cars, Tariffs Could Raise Prices for U.S. Consumers
President Trump’s tariffs target countries that are major suppliers of a wide range of goods to the United States. For American families,…
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Who Pays for Tariffs? Here’s What You Need to Know.
President Trump is moving forward with extensive tariffs on America’s closest trading partners. Beginning Tuesday, companies bringing…
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Trump’s Tariffs Put China in a Difficult Spot
President Trump’s decision on Saturday to impose new tariffs on imports from China poses a dilemma for Beijing’s leaders: Is it better to…
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Trump’s Tariffs Would Reverse Decades of Integration Between U.S. and Mexico
When Dennis Nixon started working at a regional bank in Laredo, Texas, in 1975, there was just a trickle of trade across the border with…
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Trump’s Canada and Mexico Tariffs Could Hurt Carmakers
Almost all automakers are going to feel a pinch from the new tariffs imposed by President Trump on Saturday on goods imported from Canada,…
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Here’s What to Know About Trump’s Tariffs
President Trump on Saturday signed executive orders imposing sweeping tariffs on the country’s three largest trading partners, a move that…
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Once a Trump Foil, Warren Seeks Collaboration on Policy
For the last decade, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has been a favorite foil of President Trump, who has subjected her to…
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The World Economy Awaits Trump’s First Round of Tariffs
President Trump’s threats to enact stiff tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China on Saturday have left the world trading system on edge as…
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High Inflation and New Tariffs Will Make the Fed’s Job Tougher
High inflation is stoking fresh debate about how the Federal Reserve should respond to President Trump’s sweeping plans to reorder the…
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Federal Debt Is Now Worrying Even Progressives
The 119th Congress began, as it so often has in recent years, with calls from Republican politicians for wrestling down the national debt,…
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Fed Meeting Live Updates: Interest Rates Remain Steady
The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged on Wednesday, as the central bank turned cautious on further cuts amid a sturdy economy…
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Senate Confirms Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary
The Senate on Monday voted 68 to 29 to confirm Scott Bessent to be President Trump’s Treasury secretary, putting in place the new…
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Existing-Home Sales in 2024 Were Slowest in Decades Amid High Mortgage Rates
High interest rates kept U.S. home sales in a deep freeze for much of last year. It could be a while before the market experiences much of…
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Trump’s Inflation Fix Centers on Energy Emergency That Doesn’t Exist
President Trump has put unleashing American energy production at the center of his economic agenda, saying that ramping up fossil fuel…
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Stocks Hit a Record Amid Strong Earnings and Easing Inflation Concerns
The S&P 500 clambered back to a record high on Thursday, inching above a peak reached in early December, building on gains after President…
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How the Debt Could Hamstring Trump’s Agenda
When House Republicans gathered behind closed doors on Capitol Hill last week to hash out their plans for cutting taxes, Representative…
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Trump Pitches External Revenue Service to Collect Tariffs: What to Know
President Trump has promised to generate a “massive” amount of revenue with tariffs on foreign products, an amount so big that the…
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Stocks and Bonds Fall After Strong Jobs Report Fuels Interest Rate Concerns
Stocks and bonds tumbled on Friday, as investors’ worries over the scale of government borrowing were amplified by signs of stubborn…
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U.S. Employers Add 256,000 Jobs in December
Employers stuck the landing in 2024, finishing the year with a bounce of hiring after a summer slowdown and an autumn marred by…
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U.S. Imposes New Sanctions to Squeeze Russia’s Energy Sector
The United States on Friday announced new sanctions targeting Russia’s energy sector and its “shadow fleet” of oil tankers in what could…