President Trump's expanding trade war is boosting the chances of a recession. Layoffs are rising and consumer confidence and spending are sliding.

After the stock market took its deepest dive of the year, which stocks are down, how close is the U.S. to a recession, and what time do markets open Tuesday?

The early moves from the Trump administration are testing the resiliency of a US economy that was able to defy frequent ...

In the wake of weak growth, rising unemployment and subdued inflation, the Bank of Canada has cut its policy interest rate by ...

The sell-off on Wall Street is accelerating as fears of stagflation and recession rise. It’s not helping that no one, ...

It was the Gilded Age, a time of rapid population growth and transformation from an agricultural economy toward a sprawling ...

Monday kicks off with the same old deflationary drumbeat as China’s consumer inflation took a deeper dive than expected, ...

Bad news about the US economy travels fast. But examples of a slowing economy are potentially being blown out proportion.

The U.S. labor market made solid gains again last month, adding 151,000 more jobs, just before the biggest federal layoffs began to hit. But there are other warning signs of what could be ahead, not ...

President Donald Trump considers higher tariffs on Canadian goods amid a solid jobs report showing 151,000 new jobs added ...

U.S. job growth picked up in February, but cracks are emerging in the once-resilient labor market amid a chaotic trade policy ...

The economy in 2018 was much different than the one today, and so are the Fed's options for keeping it on track.