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New analysis finds federal agencies halted or limited enforcement and prosecution, including many involving companies and individuals with ties to...
The bank's earnings reflect an economy where access to capital, regular markets, private markets, and high-end financial services means everything
Profits rolled in across Wall Street, with stock prices rising to match. By most measures, 2025 was a great year for the sector
A new inflation report is reassuring on some fronts. But it also points to why so many consumers still experience cost-of-living headaches
A clean earnings beat capped JPMorgan's strong 2025, but Trump’s pressure campaign on credit card interest rates injects new uncertainty
Wall Street is poised to report record profits. But Trump’s threat on credit card interest rates injected fresh uncertainty into earnings season
The headline numbers suggest an economy still adding jobs, albeit at a sluggish pace. But dig deeper, and the worrying signs begin to pile up
Fewer layoff announcements may be masking a deeper slowdown as white-collar and manufacturing hiring continues to fall
By traditional measures, the economy looks healthy right now. Yet nearly half of Americans say their financial security is worsening
Beneath headline employment growth, a new ADP jobs report shows major contraction in the white-collar labor market, especially in tech and consulting
Economists find a growing gap in how Supreme Court justices rule for rich and poor. Here's what that means for businesses and regulation
The S&P 500 climbed on energy gains. At the same time, gold and silver rallied amid fears that the geopolitical rules won't hold
A Wall Street Journal scoop reveals average stock-based comp of $1.5 million per employee, a staggering figure even in world-historical terms
Major banks expect AI spending and lower interest rates to keep U.S. stocks climbing, even after years of outsized gains
A new poll finds Americans across party lines increasingly blaming the federal government for higher prices
Let's look at what actually drove the big market returns of 2025 — and which stocks led the charge
When bankers talk “moderate growth” and “uncertainty,” they’re often saying even less than you'd think
Nobel Prize–winning scientist Geoffrey Hinton warns that rapid advances in AI could make many forms of human labor — and human intelligence — obsolete
After Nvidia smashed the biggest valuation milestone in market history, a host of familiar names are emerging as the likeliest to follow
The rally striking not just for its scale — gold is up roughly 70% in 2025 — but also because it’s happening alongside a rally in stocks
Most of the year's market winners offered access to major themes — AI infrastructure and AI enterprise spending, or the “debasement trade”
New GDP data shows the economy as it looked this summer — before hiring slowed, consumer sentiment sagged, and financial stress became more visible
Cars are so expensive that what used to be a standard five-year loan has given way to six- and seven-year terms, with some borrowers pushing even...
Inflation stopped being just a story about prices in 2025. It arguably became part of a much larger question markets were asking about the U.S. itself
Precious metals are ripping on fear and anxiety just as growth stocks rocket on liquidity and optimism. Can this uncanny market trend actually last?
A delayed inflation report came in cooler than expected. But fogginess in the data following the government shutdown makes it more of a blunt snapshot
How a sharp early-year drop, political uncertainty, and shifting capital flows ended the U.S. dollar’s long era of easy dominance
Lower-income and more middle-class shoppers are increasingly reaching for generic store brands and looking to cut their grocery bills any way they can
A delayed jumbo report serves as a cold reality check, showing that official data is catching up to a slump that many workers and employers already...
In a world where AI may reshape careers faster than ever, long-term stock market wealth may be the single strongest defense ordinary Americans have
A viral claim that the poverty line should be $140,000 has ignited a fierce debate about what it really costs to raise a family
McKinsey’s move lands with particular symbolic weight because of the firm’s cultural role in white-collar America
As higher-income households flood into Walmart, the retailer isn’t just winning market share —it’s redrawing the class map of American retail
A retailer once built around broad middle-class value is now powered overwhelmingly by its most affluent, most loyal, most economically insulated...
Jerome Powell says official hiring data could be so inflated that the U.S. economy is actually shedding jobs, not adding them
Another rate cut is all but certain today. But lingering data delays, layoffs, and soaring bond yields may make this Jerome Powell’s toughest call yet
What if the Fed's interest rate cuts, intended to support a struggling jobs market, end up accelerating the very technology contributing to job...
China is emerging from Trump’s 2025 trade wars more or less intact, replacing U.S.-bound exports with other partners
The passion behind the complaints may be, ironically, a sign of Copilot’s enormous visibility and spread thus far.
Discount retailers have been the stealth winners of a challenging 2025. Dollar General's earnings show that millions of shoppers are trading down
For as long as there have been men with power, there have been men terrified of losing the appearance of it
A record Halloween and near-10% sales growth at Dollar Tree shows 2025's great trade-down
Jim Chanos, most famous for his prescient Enron call in the early 2000s, is warning that Nvidia has created a risky new corner of the debt market
Google has added almost $1 trillion in market cap over the last six weeks, driven by positive reception to its newest Gemini AI model
Instant commerce surged 60% and cloud revenue soared on AI workloads, sending shares higher for a second straight day
A.I. Google is soaring toward a $4 trillion market cap as Nvidia stock slumps Google stock has shot up almost 35% in the last six weeks, adding...
Even if the government shutdown ends this week, a top official has signaled that disruptions could stretch well into the holiday season
A record-long government shutdown has the agency set to throttle flight volumes by 10% at dozens of airports, with the holiday travel season coming
The headline numbers average out the extremes, but the underlying picture is one of wealthy consumers thriving and everyone else trading down
From the Fortune 500 c-suite to the White House to the Vatican, consultants are everywhere. What do they actually know?