The U.S Senate reconfirmed Jerome H. Powell as the Federal Reserve chairman for a second four-year term on May 12, highlighting its confidence in the central ...

Americans have seen their wages increase as pandemic restrictions have eased over the past year, which have continued into April but not kept up with the ...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 1,297 points, or 3.8 percent, on May 5, one day after the market rallied to the Fed’s raising of interest rates, ...

The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits declined by 214,000 last week, reported the Labor Department on March 17, a sign that the demand for ...

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported on March 11 (pdf), that international food and feed prices could rise by up to 22 percent due ...

U.S. mortgage rates last week jumped to a two-year high and are expected to continue rising, which may further squeeze first-time homebuyers out of the market, ...

The European Union filed a complaint on Jan. 27 in the World Trade Organization (WTO) against communist China over discriminatory trade practices on behalf of its ...

AT&T and Verizon on Tuesday agreed to temporarily delay its rollout of 5G service near some U.S. airports after airlines warned the rollout would cause flight ...

The U.S. economic forecast for the first quarter of 2022 looks dim, as high inflation, supply chain and labor disruptions, and Omicron slow down growth, according ...

U.S retail sales sharply fell 1.9 percent in December, as inflation and supply issues hit prices, according to a Commerce Department report on Jan 14. The disappointing ...

Wholesale prices in the United States rose 0.2 percent in December, with total prices skyrocketing 9.7 percent in 2021, the highest 12-month period on record going ...

Walmart and Kroger, the two largest retailers in the United States, have both raised their prices for the BinaxNOW COVID-19 rapid tests, after an agreement with ...

Tesla announced on Dec. 30, that it had agreed to recall 134,951 Model S and Model X vehicles over the safety of its touchscreen displays, which ...

President Joe Biden declared ahead of a White House task force meeting on Dec. 22, that his administration’s efforts to eliminate supply-chain bottlenecks ahead of the ...

Rite Aid, one of the largest American pharmacy chains, announced on Dec. 21 that it will close 63 locations in an effort to reassess how many stores ...

The Labor Department announced on Dec. 16, that Americans filing for unemployment benefits rose as the labor market hit a slight bump in its recovery from last ...

Kroger is ending certain benefits for unvaccinated workers in order to compel its workforce to take a COVID-19 vaccine. Unvaccinated workers will no longer be eligible to ...