The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark lending rate by one-quarter of a point on Wednesday, marking the second time this year it has reduced rates in the face of a weakening [...]

U.S. stock markets had their worst drop of the year Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping 800 points, or 3 percent. The U.S. trade war with China has been [...]

The Dow Jones index fell more than 400 points Wednesday morning after bond markets flashed a troubling indicator of an impending recession. The phenomenon, known as an [...]

The U.S. added 164,000 jobs in July, the Labor Department reported Friday, a positive sign amid concerns about the long term health of the economy. The July jobs report [...]

The Federal Reserve cut the interest rate by one-quarter of a percentage point on Wednesday, marking the first such reduction in 11 years and providing an extra boost to the [...]

The economy added an anemic 75,000 jobs in May, amid ongoing trade tensions with China and Mexico and a global economic slowdown. The unemployment rate stayed steady at 3.6 [...]

The Commerce Department says the U.S. economy picked up steam in the first three months of the year. That’s a significant turnaround from expectations six weeks ago, [...]

The U.S. posted its biggest monthly budget deficit on record last month, amid falling corporate and individual tax revenue and increasing federal spending. The budget gap [...]

The economy gained a 20,000 jobs in February, indicating that the nation’s 10-year economic expansion has potentially hit a speed bump. Monthly employment data released [...]

September was a milestone in the remarkable rebound that followed the fall of Lehman Brothers 10 years ago: eight straight years of monthly job growth. The unemployment rate [...]

The latest job report marks the 93rd straight month that the U.S. economy gained jobs, the longest recorded streak. The numbers were larger than the expected 195,000 jobs [...]

The U.S. economy added a robust 223,000 jobs in the month of May, according to figures released Friday by the Department of Labor, and the unemployment rate fell slightly to [...]