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President Trump has officially hiked tariffs on aluminum and steel to 50% – despite growing warnings that his aggressive ...
Dollar General set a quarterly sales record of $10.44 billion and it upgraded its annual profit and sales outlook as ...
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said she sees tariffs as potentially stoking inflation and weakening employment, yet ...
I wrote on Monday about the puzzle of weak “soft” data from economic surveys combined with strong “hard” data on actual ...
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Tuesday the country's economy can withstand the hit from U.S. tariffs and sustain a ...
Increased use of “buy now, pay later” loans may signal shifting consumer habits, but could also be a troubling sign of ...
Australia’s economy slowed sharply in the first quarter, leaving it vulnerable to emerging weakness in world growth as the ...
Australia's economy barely grew in the first quarter as consumers stayed stubbornly frugal and government spending, the ...
South Africa’s economic growth beat expectations in the first three months of the year as transport and farming boosted ...
The US is at a low risk of an imminent debt crisis — but high risk in the long term, billionaire investor Ray Dalio writes in ...
South Africa's economy grew 0.1% in the first quarter of 2025 in seasonally-adjusted quarter-on-quarter terms, statistics ...