The U.S. economy shrank at a 0.3% annual rate in the first quarter of the year, the first decrease in national output since 2022. The decrease was due to a surge of imports, as people raced to buy ...

Tuesday's midterm elections come at a time of economic vulnerability for the United States. Recession predictions have largely turned to "when" not "if" and inflation remains stubbornly elevated.

China is trying to address social ills and economic woes. But its solutions may be working against each other.

For the economy, 2022 was a throwback year. And not in a good way. At times, it felt like the 1970s or early ‘80s. Inflation running rampant. The United States and its European allies engaged in a not ...

Sales of existing homes in March posted their biggest monthly decline in more than two years, after mounting economic uncertainty roiled the housing market at the start of the critical spring selling ...

The 30-year rate dips below an important psychological threshold and is expected to boost home sales going into the crucial spring season ...

People wait for the bus on Park Street in the Frog Hollow neighborhood of Hartford. Credit: Yehyun Kim / ctmirror.org A family of four in the northeastern U.S. needed to earn close to $151,100 in 2022 ...

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The US job market continues to chug along despite heightened uncertainty about the economy and how President Donald Trump’s tariffs could shake out. The economy added a stronger-than-expected 147,000 ...

Confidence among U.K. firms has tumbled to its lowest level since the market-rocking "mini-budget" crisis of fall 2022, according to a survey by the British Chambers of Commerce. The trade group said ...