Economics

(Bloomberg) — Filings for U.S. unemployment benefits fell to a four-week low at the end of last year, the latest sign that the labor market remains robust. Jobless claims fell by 2,000 to 222,000 in […]

President Donald Trump plans to sign the “phase one” trade deal with China at the White House on Jan. 15. In a tweet Tuesday morning, the president said “high level representatives of China” will attend […]

Opponents of job outsourcing are making a holiday-season appeal to President Trump: Stop U.S. companies from forcing American workers to train the very same cheaper foreign laborers who will soon replace them. Why it matters: […]

(Bloomberg) — Should American investors, $6 trillion richer after the stock market’s best year in six, take shelter now, convinced a reckoning is at hand and the good times won’t last? As far as earnings, […]

One of the most popular sayings in discussion of the finance industry these days is: “the bear case sounds smarter.” It’s true that outlandish predictions about negative outcomes often sound better-informed to people not familiar […]

The construction of physical barriers along America’s southern border has been stymied and slowed due to partisan opposition in Washington, D.C., and legal battles in the federal courts over the last few years, but now […]

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Oil prices fell on Wednesday after industry data showed an unexpected build in crude inventory in the United States and as investors waited for news on whether a fresh round of U.S. tariffs on Chinese […]

The number of Americans filing applications for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week, hitting their lowest level in seven months, suggesting the labor market remains solid even as the economy is slowing. Initial claims for […]

Tech Data (TECD) – The technology distributor agreed to be bought by private-equity firm Apollo Global (APO) in a sweetened offer worth $5.14 billion excluding debt, or $145 per share. Tech Data had struck a […]