Job seekers wait to enter the SacJobs Career job fair in Sacramento, California, US, on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images As the U.S. government reopens for business, Wall Street’s attention will now turn toward when critical data on employment, inflation and other economic signposts will be released. Agencies…
President Donald Trump is blaming the meat packers and U.S. cattlemen for rising beef prices, but the tariffs on beef from Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Uruguay, feed, farm equipment and machinery are all adding to the price surge. The United States is a big buyer of Australian, Brazilian, and New Zealand beef exports. Brazil is…
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during the daily press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Nov. 12, 2025 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee | Getty Images Key economic reports for October may not be released at all because of the government shutdown, a senior White House official…
Susan Collins, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, during a Bloomberg Television interview at the Kansas City Federal Reserve’s Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium in Moran, Wyoming, US, on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Boston Federal Reserve President Susan Collins on Wednesday…
Atlanta Federal Reserve President Raphael Bostic said Wednesday he will be leaving his position when his term expires in February. Bostic has been in his current role since June 2017 and is the first Black and openly gay regional president. His term, which also was marked by issues relating to personal investments he made, runs…
Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with U.S. President Donald Trump in Busan, South Korea, Oct. 30, 2025. (Photo by Huang Jingwen/Xinhua via Getty Images) Huang Jingwen | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images Even as a U.S.–China trade truce appears to be holding, analysts caution that the détente remains fragile in a rivalry increasingly defined…
Shoppers look at a canned fish display Nov. 4, 2025 at the Market 32 Supermarket in South Burlington, Vermont. Robert Nickelsberg | Getty Images As stock market investors support economic sentiment, some economists wonder if a looser labor market could pull the rug out. The University of Michigan’s widely-followed consumer sentiment index slid more than…
Short-term rentals company Sonder on Monday said it plans to file for bankruptcy, a day after Marriott International said a licensing agreement between the two companies had ended. The deal, signed in August 2024, allowed Sonder hotels to be booked via Marriott’s Bonvoy website and was widely considered a lifeline for the San Francisco-based company,…
It’s no secret that buying a home is expensive. The average sales price for U.S. homes has hovered around $400,000 since the end of 2021, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Most homebuyers looking to cover that cost turn to mortgage lenders, who pore over financial details like salaries, bank balances and…
A Republic Airways plane takes off near the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) in Arlington, Virginia, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. Samuel Corum | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. airlines will have to cut hundreds more flights next week if Congress can’t come to a solution to end…
