Donald Trump has hit dozens of US trading partners with new tariffs while formalising recent trade deals with others, including the UK and EU. Analysts at Yale Budget Lab estimate that, overall, the US effective tariff rate is now at its highest level since the 1930s.

While spending soared to almost $12 billion, per one estimate, the data shows a more complicated economic picture.

The world economy has proven surprisingly durable in the face of President Donald Trump’s trade wars, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Tuesday, upgrading its outlook for global and U.

The president rolled out a $12 billion bailout for farmers as he makes the case that his policy is working — or will soon.

Over the next decade, the US economy will face two big challenges: higher interest rates and AI-generated disruption. Each invites the same solution: policies to keep rates below their market level. The strategy, also known as yield-curve control, is ...

America’s first merger wave began in the 1890s and forged giants in steel, oil and railroads. A second preceded the crash of 1929. Executives assembled conglomerates in the 1960s; private-equity firms dismantled them in the 1980s. The bursting of the ...

China's systematic intellectual property theft campaign poses unprecedented threats to American national security and technological leadership.

The ban is the latest fallout after released documents revealed Larry Summers, a former Harvard president, kept in touch with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The total trade deficit dropped from the $59.3 billion revised total in August “to $52.8 billion in September, as exports increased more than imports,” according to the report from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.