Little warning signs are flashing across the economy. The big question is what to make of them. With consumers growing more pessimistic, households and global businesses alike are yanking back on new spending and investments. And a growing pile of data points…
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China has signaled that it is becoming more open to engaging in trade negotiations with the Trump administration, according to two blogs closely associated with China’s state apparatus, even as Beijing maintains a defiant stance in the trade war. After three months of bluster…
The White House on Friday will release a partial budget proposal that calls for $163 billion in cuts to federal spending in the next fiscal year, a person familiar with the matter confirmed. The upcoming “skinny budget” will propose cuts…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday evening seeking to prohibit federal funding for NPR and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). The order, which could be subject to legal challenge, called the broadcasters’ news coverage “biased and partisan.” It instructs the Corporation for…
The White House is coming down on Amazon over a Tuesday report from Punchbowl News that claimed the world’s largest online retailer will start showing how much Trump’s tariffs affect the price of each product. Amazon, however, says the report was inaccurate…
You’ll have to save more before you pick up the next Call of Duty or Halo game. Microsoft has announced a series of price increases that will see the recommended retail price of its first-party games increase to $79.99. The systems used to play…
Mark Zuckerberg’s plan is to make Meta the market leader in artificial intelligence. Investors will want to know how President Donald Trump’s tariffs-heavy trade policies will impact that strategy. Those answers could start to come as soon as this week as Meta’s AI…
The clock is ticking on trade deals that the U.S. will need to strike with many nations, most notably China, to avoid what President Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, has described as an unsustainable tariff war. But in the U.S. farming sector,…
President Trump’s shake-up of the global trade system has sent tremors through the long-held view that the United States is the source of the world’s safest financial assets. That’s created an opportunity for Europe. The market tumult in which investors…
President Donald Trump on Thursday again made clear his disdain for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, going so far as to say the central banker’s “termination can’t come fast enough” and saying in an Oval Office event that Powell will “be…
