US labor cost growth cooled in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, reassuring Federal Reserve policymakers wage pressures are gradually diminishing and no longer a key driver of inflation.

The US financial markets have recovered somewhat after being decimated by the emergence of a new Chinese AI app, and today's inflation data may finally put us on track for an interest rate cut.

As U.S. President Donald Trump returns to the White House, it already seems clear that his second term will look little like his first. Many of Trump’s first-term appointments distanced themselves from his views and even denounced him.

Australia's inflation rose 0.2% in the December quarter and 2.4% annually, according to data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Give Trump some credit. He has no interest in faking empathy, as Biden did so ineptly. In Trump’s playbook, empathy is a weakness, even amid tragedy. Instead, each disaster is an opportunity to go on the attack,

Remember “quiet quitting?” The pandemic-era buzzword may have faded but the quiet quitters haven’t exactly quit quiet quitting.

Tesla, IBM and Meta Platforms helped lead most U.S. stocks higher after a rush of profit reports from some of the country’s most influential companies

U.S. stocks slipped after the Federal Reserve held its main interest rate steady and broke a run of cuts that began in September

U.S. investors rattled by this week's sharp tech sell-off will closely watch upcoming jobs data for signs of continued economic resilience, which could fuel inflationary concerns already stoked by President Donald Trump's policies.

Wall Street banks are getting ready to sell up to $3 billion of debt holdings in X, the social-media platform controlled by Elon Musk, two sources with knowledge of the matter said Friday.

Jo Craven McGinty is science bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal. Previously, she was senior talent editor for the managing editor. Before that, she spent nearly eight years writing The ...

President Trump’s economic proposals, with one exception, constitute a coherent package. I will address his proposals in a later column. Today I address his bad idea that would cause the failure of Trump’s renewal of the American economy.