WASHINGTON: Top Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives made a last-minute pitch to Republicans Sunday for why they should put partisanship aside and...
WASHINGTON: The "phase one" U.S.-China trade deal will nearly double U.S. exports to China over the next two years and is "totally done"...
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration Tuesday delayed imposing a 10-percent import tariff on laptops, cellphones, video game consoles and a wide range of other...
CHANTILLY, France: Digital currencies such as Facebook’s planned Libra raise serious concerns and must be regulated as tightly as possible to ensure they do...
WASHINGTON / BEIJING: The diplomatic cable from Beijing arrived in Washington late Friday night, with systematic edits to a nearly 150-page draft trade...
NUSA DUA, Indonesia: Three days before U.S. President Donald Trump took office in January 2017, Chinese President Xi Jinping portrayed Beijing as the champion...
NUSA DUA, Indonesia: The International Monetary Fund Tuesday cut its global economic growth forecasts for 2018 and 2019, saying that the U.S-China trade war...
BUENOS AIRES: The United States sought to woo Europe and Japan with free trade deals Saturday to gain leverage in an escalating tariff war with China, but its...
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump’s pledge to help a Chinese telecommunication company that broke United States sanctions laws sparked a backlash from...
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia: International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said she saw positive and negative effects from a “complicated” U.S....
WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES: U.S. President Donald Trump slapped steep tariffs on imported washing machines and solar panels Monday, giving a boost to Whirlpool...
WASHINGTON: The United States Wednesday laid down a tough line for modernizing the North American Free Trade Agreement, demanding major changes to the pact...
WASHINGTON: Global trade has brought benefits from increased productivity to lower prices but governments have not adequately helped workers and communities...
WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund Tuesday called on the group of 20 major economies to work together to preserve the benefits of trade and avoid...
WASHINGTON: The World Bank said Thursday that 48 governments have ratcheted up the fight against extreme poverty by committing $75 billion in new funds to the...
WASHINGTON: The world is swimming in a record $152 trillion in debt, the IMF said Wednesday, even as the institution encourages some countries to spend more...
WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund maintained its forecast for weak global growth Tuesday and warned that further stagnation will fuel more populist...
WASHINGTON: Armed conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa are not only devastating the economies gripped by fighting, but are sapping growth in...
WASHINGTON: International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said the institution will likely downgrade its 2016 global growth forecast again...
WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund cut its global growth forecasts for the next two years Tuesday, citing uncertainty over Britain’s looming exit...
WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund cut its global growth forecast for the fourth time in the past year Tuesday, citing China’s slowdown, persistently...
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Barack Obama proposed a $4.1-trillion spending plan for fiscal year 2017 Tuesday in a final White House budget that met immediate...
WASHINGTON: Wall Street trembled when Republicans first began threatening to force the United States into default by not raising the federal debt limit, but...
WASHINGTON: More prominent Democrats on Sunday cracked open the door for Vice President Joe Biden to enter the race for the Democratic presidential nomination...
WASHINGTON: A battle in Congress that could shut down the U.S. Export-Import Bank next week is already causing headaches for small exporters as they try to...