The Fed said the job market is “solid,” and noted that the unemployment rate “has stabilized at a low level in recent months.

Last week the Federal Reserve described the US labour market as “solid” and noted that the unemployment rate had stabilised. This week’s monthly jobs report on Friday will put that view to the test.

Donald Trump faced a backlash from business groups and some in his own Republican party after kicking off a trade war by imposing steep tariffs on three of the US’s largest trading partners.

ECB cuts the deposit rate by a quarter point to 2.75 per cent as expected and offers little shift in tone from December as it continues to move policy away from restrictive territory ...

The US labour market is also in focus next week with an update on hires and fires over December on Tuesday. Payroll data for January also arrives on Friday with 170,000 non-farm jobs expected to have ...

As a reflection of just how suddenly Wall Street analysts have had to scramble to adjust to reality, Standard Chartered’s (presumably pre-written) Sunday Macro Strategy note said that “broader tariff ...

Trump’s tariffs apply to about 40 per cent of US imports (excluding Mexico, the share is about one-quarter). But while the scope of the new duties is broad, the US is not a very open economy: in 2024, ...

Teikoku Databank, a research company that tracks historic changes in the cost of assembling a plate of Japan’s beloved curry ...

Enter Donald Trump. The new US president could call on Opec. He can pledge to ratchet up oil sanctions on Russia to the point where their impact becomes more acute: these would target not only ...

President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada and Mexico sparked panic and condemnation from the US’s top trading partners, who said the levies would devastate North America’s economy and overturn ...

THE more President Donald Trump threatens tariffs on the US’s trading partners, the more the worry of another inflation wave ...