President Gustavo Petro’s leftist government recently failed to get congressional approval for a tax bill that would have boosted the government’s budget by $4 billion in 2026, a year featuring ...

In some of the remaining cases, luck more than skill was to thank for lofty shareholder returns. This year the price of gold ...

A feared recession didn’t materialize, but unemployment rose, wage growth slowed and affordability challenges are mounting.

An economist at one of China’s biggest investment banks said the time has come for authorities to allow for more appreciation in the yuan, a decision that would give consumers greater spending power ...

On November 30TH President Donald Trump said he had decided whom to nominate as the next chair of the Federal Reserve. He has since said he will reveal his choice early next year. In betting markets, ...

Pete Hegseth, the secretary of war, came under growing pressure from Democratic and Republican lawmakers who said that a second strike on the wreck of an alleged drug-smuggling vessel may have been a ...

CHINESE-BORN brainiacs have been at the forefront of innovation in America. Yang Chen-Ning, a Nobel-prizewinning physicist who died in October, was one such. But a mixture of pushes (such as the ...

A FEW MONTHS ago Western governments were sunk in gloom because America no longer sounded or acted like a reliable friend. Today American flakiness is the least of their worries. A growing fear among ...

Donald Trump said he had decided who to nominate to succeed Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve, though he declined to name his pick. Kevin Hassett, a senior economic adviser to Mr Trump, ...

Ray Dalio spied the dotcom bubble early. “We’re approaching a blow-off phase of the US stockmarket,” said the founder of Bridgewater, one of the world’s biggest hedge funds. Peter Lynch, the ...

Fifty years ago money moved at the speed of mail. When one of us (Larry) started his career in 1976, trades were placed over the phone and settled with paper certificates sent by courier. In 1977 a ...

MANY TOPICS divide Americans: illegal immigration, abortion, the rights of transgender people. And then there are leaf blowers. In recent years dozens of municipalities have enacted ordinances ...