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Biden Announces Tariffs on Chinese Metals Routed Through Mexico
The measure aims to close a loophole that officials said allowed metals made partly in China to come into the United States duty free.
By Ana Swanson
The measure aims to close a loophole that officials said allowed metals made partly in China to come into the United States duty free.
By Ana Swanson
A court-appointed monitor said he was looking into allegations that a union official was punished for resisting actions that would have benefited the union president’s partner and her sister.
By Noam Scheiber
Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, delivered optimistic remarks to Senators as inflation and the job market slow gently.
By Jeanna Smialek
A report says new approaches and increased spending are needed to ensure that government statistics remain dependable and free of political influence.
By Ben Casselman
Climate change is driving rates higher, but not always in areas with the greatest risk.
By Christopher Flavelle and Mira Rojanasakul
Treasury officials want to impose penalties on tankers that help Russian oil evade sanctions. White House aides worry that risks making gasoline more expensive.
By Jim Tankersley and Alan Rappeport
Markets are expecting the Federal Reserve to make roughly two reductions of a quarter-point each this year.
By Joe Rennison and Danielle Kaye
Federal Reserve policymakers are watching for any sign that the labor market is weakening abruptly, which might prod them to cut rates sooner.
By Jeanna Smialek
A gain of 206,000 in June exceeded forecasts. Hiring was concentrated in a few parts of the economy, however, and unemployment rose to 4.1 percent.
By Talmon Joseph Smith
Donald J. Trump slapped tariffs on trading partners and cut taxes in his first term. But after inflation’s return, a repeat playbook would be riskier.
By Jeanna Smialek
Owners of some rental buildings are starting to struggle because of rising interest rates and waning demand in some once booming Sun Belt cities.
By Joe Rennison and Julie Creswell
The gulf between higher- and lower-income consumers has been widening for years, but it is expected to show up especially clearly in travel this season.
By Jeanna Smialek
High interest rates, economic uncertainty and a cyberattack appear to have dampened sales in the three months through June.
By Neal E. Boudette and Jack Ewing
Los Angeles lifted restrictions that had forced street vendors, mostly immigrants, on Hollywood Boulevard to dodge citations. Other challenges remain.
By Kurtis Lee, Ana Facio-Krajcer and Adam Perez
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The economy appears to be downshifting and price gains are moderating, as Federal Reserve officials creep closer to beating inflation.
By Jeanna Smialek
The former president’s past tariffs raised prices for consumers and businesses, economists say. His next plan could tax 10 times as many imports.
By Ana Swanson and Alan Rappeport
What you need to know about the economy before Thursday’s showdown between President Biden and Donald J. Trump.
By Jeanna Smialek
As the presidential election approaches, politicians are focused on who is to blame for price increases. How did we get here?
By Jeanna Smialek, Karl Russell and Lazaro Gamio
Corporate executives complain about some of President Biden’s policies, along with his rhetoric. But so far they have not abandoned him en masse.
By Ben Casselman, Jim Tankersley, Sydney Ember and Theodore Schleifer
We fact-checked claims about inflation, jobs and tax policy from both presidential candidates.
By Linda Qiu
Home building in May fell to its slowest pace in four years despite a supply shortage. That trend could put even greater strain on buyers.
By Danielle Kaye
Home prices have held up better than expected amid high interest rates. But that doesn’t mean the housing market is healthy.
By Ben Casselman
A narrow Supreme Court ruling left the door open for Congress to expand taxes on billionaires, but it’s not a guarantee.
By Jim Tankersley
Portfolio managers have conflicting incentives as the economic and financial risks from climate change become more apparent but remain imprecise.
By Lydia DePillis
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Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a deal with business and labor leaders heading off a ballot measure to repeal the law, which has cost companies billions.
By Kurtis Lee
California officials cited failures to disclose productivity requirements at two locations. The company said it would appeal.
By Noam Scheiber
Congressional Budget Office projections released on Tuesday show a grim fiscal backdrop ahead of tax and debt limit fights.
By Alan Rappeport
An affiliation agreement between the Amazon Labor Union and the 1.3 million-member Teamsters signals an escalation in challenging the online retailer.
By Noam Scheiber
Some voters blame the American Rescue Plan for fueling price increases. But the growth it unleashed may be helping the president stay more popular than counterparts in Europe.
By Jim Tankersley and Madeleine Ngo
Artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT are finding widest use at big companies, but there is wide expectation that the impact will spread.
By Sydney Ember
In a blow to the National Labor Relations Board, the justices made it more difficult to order employers to reinstate fired workers.
By Noam Scheiber and Santul Nerkar
Cole Mannix, of Old Salt Co-op, is trying to change local appetites and upend an industry controlled by multibillion-dollar meatpackers.
By Susan Shain and Rebecca Stumpf
The latest data could help to restore policymakers’ conviction that inflation is in the process of returning to the Federal Reserve’s goal.
By Jeanna Smialek
Federal Reserve officials signaled that interest rates could stay higher this year as policymakers pause to ensure they’ve stamped out inflation.
By Jeanna Smialek
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But rising trade barriers pose a long-term threat to global output as protectionist policies spread, the bank said.
By Alan Rappeport
The government targeted companies involved in making seafood, aluminum and footwear, citing their links to labor programs affecting Chinese minorities.
By Ana Swanson
Federal Reserve officials are expected to leave interest rates unchanged at their meeting this week. They will also release a fresh set of economic projections.
By Jeanna Smialek
The agreement, if ratified, will cover 1,600 workers making batteries for General Motors in Ohio. The union said it would be a model for efforts elsewhere.
By Neal E. Boudette
The monthly data is drawn from two surveys. This time, one was quite strong, and the other flashed warning signs.
By Ben Casselman
The latest data could add to fears that the labor market remains too hot to bring inflation fully under control.
By Ben Casselman
Hiring was unexpectedly robust in May, with a gain of 272,000 jobs, but it wasn’t all good news: The unemployment rate ticked up, to 4 percent.
By Lydia DePillis
American solar manufacturers are pushing for further protections for their new factories against cheaply priced imports from China.
By Ana Swanson and Alan Rappeport
A “competitiveness crisis” is raising alarms for officials and business leaders in the European Union, where investment, income and productivity are lagging.
By Patricia Cohen
The pandemic shopping boom led many stores and brands to widen profit margins by charging more. Now value is the watchword as shoppers grow choosier.
By Talmon Joseph Smith and Jordyn Holman
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Automakers and dealers are starting to offer discounts, low-interest loans and other incentives to lure buyers as the supply of cars grows.
By Neal E. Boudette
The coronavirus pandemic schooled the world in the essential role of global supply chains. Have we learned anything from it?
By Peter S. Goodman
New research shows that people who develop dementia often begin falling behind on bills years earlier.
By Ben Casselman
The Labor Department filed a lawsuit accusing Hyundai, one of its suppliers and a staffing company of jointly employing a 13-year-old on an auto body parts assembly line in Alabama.
By Santul Nerkar
Things look strong on paper, but many Americans remain unconvinced. We asked economic officials, the woman who coined “vibecession” and Charlamagne Tha God what they think is happening.
By Jeanna Smialek
Consumers eased up on spending in the face of rising prices and high interest rates, Commerce Department data shows.
By Ben Casselman
The Biden administration aims to better support small farmers while still aiding big operations and rewarding climate-friendly practices. It’s a tall order.
By Lydia DePillis
Skyrocketing premiums are hitting homeowners hard, but they barely factor into common price measures.
By Jeanna Smialek
Chief executives are vulnerable to the same forces buffeting their employees. Leadership is important, but so is efficiency — and cost-cutting.
By David Streitfeld
The Teamsters union has made little headway in organizing workers at Amazon and FedEx despite wage and other gains it secured at UPS last year.
By Peter Eavis
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The United States and Europe are trying to catch up to a rival skilled in using all the levers of government and banking to dominate global manufacturing.
By Patricia Cohen, Keith Bradsher and Jim Tankersley
Out-of-state transplants, drawn during the pandemic by the Mountain West’s allure, have caused prices to soar and created new uncertainty in the state’s crucial Senate race.
By Kellen Browning and Louise Johns
Western economic officials projected a united front, and braced for retaliation, as they prepped tougher sanctions and tariffs.
By Alan Rappeport
The argument is the organization’s attempt to maintain the last vestiges of its amateur model and to prevent college athletes from collectively bargaining.
By Santul Nerkar
A second Trump administration could shake up personnel and financial regulation at America’s central bank, people close to his campaign said.
By Jeanna Smialek
Federal Reserve policymakers were still willing to raise rates if the economy surprised them, notes from their most recent meeting suggested.
By Jeanna Smialek
The Federal Reserve’s 2023 survey on household financial well-being found Americans excelling in the job market but struggling with prices.
By Jeanna Smialek
The report also found that Jaguar Land Rover and Volkswagen bought parts from a supplier the U.S. government had singled out for its practices in Xinjiang.
By Ana Swanson and Jack Ewing
Conflicting political visions, competitive jockeying and American dominance stand in the way of a more coordinated and efficient military machine.
By Patricia Cohen and Liz Alderman
Finance ministers from the G7 nations are hoping to finalize a plan ahead of the group’s leaders meeting next month.
By Alan Rappeport
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After Mercedes workers voted against joining the United Automobile Workers, the union will have less momentum as it campaigns to organize Southern factories.
By Neal E. Boudette
Insurers are raising prices for insurance premiums steeply. Here's why, and why it matters for the economy.
By Marie Solis
The largest U.S. retailer had robust quarterly results and an upbeat outlook, giving insight into how consumers are weathering high interest rates.
By Jordyn Holman
The Consumer Price Index inflation measure accounts for housing costs in a complicated way. There are reasons for it.
By Jeanna Smialek
Automakers in the United States and their supporters welcomed President Biden’s tariffs, saying they would protect domestic manufacturing and jobs from cheap Chinese vehicles.
By Neal E. Boudette
Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, said the central bank was poised to leave interest rates on hold after surprisingly stubborn inflation.
By Jeanna Smialek
The economy as a whole has proved resilient amid the highest rates in decades. But beneath the surface, many low- and moderate-income families are struggling.
By Ben Casselman and Jeanna Smialek
Hopes for a steep drop in borrowing costs for consumers and businesses have been dashed. But some experts predict modest reductions in coming months.
By Talmon Joseph Smith
The grant is the latest federal award in a series stemming from the CHIPS and Science Act meant to ramp up domestic production of vital semiconductors.
By Madeleine Ngo
The administration could raise tariffs on electric vehicles from China to 100 percent in an attempt to protect American auto manufacturers.
By Alan Rappeport and Jim Tankersley
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Fed officials still think their next move will be to cut rates, but they are not entirely ruling out the possibility that they might have to raise them.
By Jeanna Smialek
The president’s visit to Wisconsin celebrated the investment by Microsoft in a center to be built on the site of a failed Foxconn project negotiated by his predecessor.
By Erica L. Green
How an obscure, 45-year-old tax change transformed retirement and left so many Americans out in the cold.
By Michael Steinberger
Employers added 175,000 jobs in April, a milder pace than in the winter months, though layoffs have remained low and most sectors appear stable.
By Lydia DePillis
Fed officials are watching labor trends as they contemplate when to cut rates. But different measures are telling different stories.
By Jeanna Smialek
North Carolina’s Triad was built on tobacco, textiles and furniture. Now it’s trying to forge a new economy from more highly skilled manufacturing.
By Santul Nerkar and Mike Belleme
Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, said that the central bank needed “greater confidence” that inflation was coming down before it decided to cut interest rates, which are at a two-decade high.
By The New York Times
March data showed a cooling labor market, but layoffs remain low. The overall trend is likely to be welcomed by Federal Reserve policymakers.
By Ben Casselman
Economists are wondering whether political developments could play into both the Fed’s near-term decisions and its long-term independence.
By Jeanna Smialek
The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged for a sixth straight meeting and suggested that rates would stay high for longer.
By Jeanna Smialek
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White House officials have barnstormed Wisconsin to make the connection between big changes and their signature laws.
By Lydia DePillis
Ben Houchen, a regional mayor in the north of England, faces a close re-election race, partly thanks to the broader troubles of Britain’s Conservative Party.
By Stephen Castle
The Better Goods store brand will carry plant-based, gluten-free and higher-end food and could help the retailer attract more affluent shoppers.
By Jordyn Holman
High rates usually pull down asset prices and hurt the housing market. Those channels are muted now, possibly making policy slower to work.
By Jeanna Smialek
Economists are divided over whether the growing amount of federal borrowing is fueling demand and driving up prices.
By Jim Tankersley
Stubborn inflation has led traders to forecast far fewer rate cuts by the Federal Reserve than just a few months ago.
By Jeanna Smialek
Gross domestic product, adjusted for inflation, increased at a 1.6 percent annual rate in the first three months of the year.
By Ben Casselman
Places that are not usual sites for the league’s marquee game are jumping at the chance to be the host of its three-day draft.
By Ken Belson
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken is in China this week as tensions have risen over trade, security, Russia’s war on Ukraine and the Middle East crisis.
By Ana Swanson, David Pierson and Olivia Wang
Tensions over economic ties are running high, threatening to disrupt a fragile cooperation between the U.S. and China.
By Ana Swanson
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Firms like Experian and TransUnion say it is time for “buy now, pay later” loans to appear on consumer credit reports. The lenders aren’t ready to sign on.
By Jordyn Holman and Ben Casselman
Some experts say the outcome at a plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., may be organized labor’s most significant advance in decades. But the road could get rockier.
By Noam Scheiber
The measure from a member of the Bloc Québécois would ban changes to the supply management system for dairy, poultry and eggs.
By Ian Austen
The Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga is set to become the first unionized auto factory in the South not owned by one of Detroit’s Big Three.
By Neal E. Boudette
Manish Lachwani, who founded the software start-up HeadSpin, is the latest tech entrepreneur to face time in prison in recent years.
By Erin Griffith
The president is increasingly hitting back with tariffs and other measures meant to restrict imports, raising tensions with Beijing.
By Jim Tankersley and Alan Rappeport
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