The U.S. economy has grown for six straight years. Business are pouring billions of dollars into artificial intelligence. And a record boom in the stock market is turning many older Americans into 401 ...

Measures of consumer sentiment have lost their usefulness as indicators of the health of the economy Diccon Hyatt is an experienced financial and economics reporter. He's written hundreds of articles ...

The U.S. economy grew at a 2 percent pace in the first three months of the year, as higher investment and a rebound in government spending buoyed business activity while consumers showed signs of ...

Moody’s, one of the world’s Big 3 credit ratings agencies, this week confirmed China’s sovereign credit rating of A1, Upper-Medium Investment Grade, and revised its outlook from “Negative” to “Stable.

New economic data this week delivers fresh evidence of the exceptional strength and accelerating momentum of the American economy under President Donald J. Trump. America’s core fundamentals are ...

Roger W. Ferguson Jr. is the Steven A Tananbaum Distinguished Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. Maximilian Hippold is a research associate at CFR. Iran’s closure ...

As costs surge and safety nets shrink, millions of Americans are struggling to afford the basics. Surprising pantry staples have seen spiking sales in recent months: Hamburger Helper and canned ...

MICHAEL SPENCE is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and Philip H. Knight Professor and dean, emeritus, at Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize ...

Gross domestic product expanded at a 1.4 percent annual rate in the last quarter of the year, hit by the effects of the government shutdown. By Ben Casselman The U.S. economy slowed sharply at the end ...

After more than six decades of cleaning up messes, Mr. Clean is "retiring." In a Thursday, Feb. 18 news conference, Mr. Clean announced that he was "hanging up his whites" and taking some much-needed ...

This Pew Research Center report looks at how the U.S. public feels about the economy, their concerns over economic issues and how Trump’s policies are effecting economic conditions. Pew Research ...