Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, warned in a speech that protectionism erodes productivity.
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Jerome Powell has said that the Federal Reserve can be patient as the effects of tariffs become more clear. President Trump, who is pushing for interest rate cuts, said, “Powell’s termination cannot come fast enough!”
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Jerome H. Powell warned that President Trump’s tariffs could lead to a “challenging scenario” for the central bank.
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Organized labor has taken a leading role in challenging the Trump administration’s downsizing agenda in court. A new service will offer more individualized representation.
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The Grand Egyptian Museum, outside Cairo, has been delayed by revolutions, wars, financial crises and a pandemic. At long last, here’s a look inside.
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For his first face-to-face talks on tariffs, the president chose Japan, a U.S. ally that decades ago stirred his anger over the unequal balance of trade and his penchant for tariffs.
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The blanket tariffs, once considered extreme, still threaten to harm world trade and make everything more expensive for businesses and consumers.
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President Trump is staking everything on winning by imposing tariffs on China. But the fight threatens to choke off negotiations about other issues like Taiwan, fentanyl, TikTok and more.
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Citing a national security statute, the administration has begun a process to investigate the impact of imported semiconductors and pharmaceuticals.
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President Trump’s post on social media caused the stock market to respond in an unusual way. Rob Copeland, a finance reporter for The New York Times, explains whether this could be considered market manipulation by the president.
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The Trump administration is in a standoff with the Chinese government as trade tensions escalate, leaving U.S. businesses in the cross hairs
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Many Americans have purchased foreign-made products out of fears that companies could start to raise prices soon.
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The Treasury secretary received counsel and criticism from some of his predecessors over President Trump’s policies.
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The country’s debt is in demand amid the chaos in financial markets spurred by whipsawing U.S. tariff policies.
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A new survey from the University of Michigan shows consumers souring sharply on the economic outlook as the trade war heats up.
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In the usually steady government bond market, the yield on the 10-year Treasury has risen to about 4.5 percent from less than 4 percent at the end of last week.
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President Trump’s trade policies will make imports more expensive and calculating and paying the tariffs more complicated.
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Ursula von der Leyen is trying to ensure that if the international trading system is remade, the E.U. is at the center of what comes next.
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Economists say the U.S. manufacturing decline in recent decades was not mainly about free trade, but about the pace of change without time to adjust.
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The legal organization behind a lawsuit challenging President Trump’s tariffs is funded by groups linked to Charles Koch and Leonard A. Leo.
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Soybean producers warn that farms could go under as the Trump administration hits China with new tariffs of 145 percent.
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Britain’s central bank altered a planned bond sale, citing “recent market volatility.”
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