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President Trump’s global tariffs have sent stock markets worldwide into a tailspin, and the S&P 500 on Monday briefly entered bear market territory for the… Read More »What Is a Bear Market? Are We in One?

In December, Frank Parker upgraded to a bigger shrimp boat. For the Mississippi shrimper, it was a good trade with an older fisherman who was… Read More »Gulf Coast Shrimpers See Hope in Trump’s Tariffs

Ben Whelan is not the kind of carpenter to wax poetic about the joys of framing a wall or redoing a roof. Like a lot… Read More »How Contracting Work Became a Race to the Bottom

The British government eased rules on carmakers requiring them to shift toward selling electric vehicles, as officials sought to blunt some of the pain caused… Read More »Britain Eases Rules on Electric Vehicles as Auto Tariffs Hit

President Trump’s global trade war has significantly raised the bar for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, as tariffs risk worsening an already knotty… Read More »Trump’s Trade War Raises Bar for Fed Rate Cuts

President Trump’s announcement last week that he will impose a 20 percent tariff on goods coming from the European Union sent shock waves across the… Read More »Europe Is Ready to Make Its First Countermove to Trump Tariffs

China’s leaders have sent a clear message about the effects of the Trump administration’s sweeping tariffs: Things will be painful, but it is nothing that… Read More »China Downplays the Trade War’s Effects on Its Economy

U.S. oil prices fell sharply, briefly dipping below $60 a barrel on Sunday — their lowest level in almost four years — as the economic… Read More »Oil Prices Tumble Further as Trump’s Tariffs Weigh on Economic Outlook

Kanda, a small town encircled by mountains on Japan’s southeast coast, is hundreds of miles from any major centers of business or politics. But recently,… Read More »Trump’s Tariffs Imperil the Fortunes of a Nissan Factory Town

Virtually everyone in the cryptocurrency world celebrated the second election of President Trump, an enthusiastic booster of the industry who promised to turn the United… Read More »Bitcoin Is Down 10% Since Trump’s Global Tariff Announcement

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Stock markets pointed to a further fall this week as futures trading got underway Sunday evening, with investors and economists grappling with rising odds of… Read More »Stocks Are Set to Extend Sharp Fall

There was little rest on Wall Street this weekend. There was plenty of anger, anxiety, frustration, and fear. Anger at President Trump for a brash… Read More »Wall Street’s Decision Makers Brace for More Chaos After Markets Plunge

Thousands of pounds of liquid egg substitutes sold under two popular brand names have been recalled because of the potential risk of contamination with a… Read More »Two Liquid Egg Brands Recalled Over Bleach Contamination Risk

The article of which he was most proud was “The Woman Who Beat the Klan,” published in The Times Magazine in 1987, about Beulah Mae… Read More »Jesse Kornbluth, Magazine Writer Who Covered Everything, Dies at 79

When Republicans cut taxes in the past, they did so only temporarily, bowing to Washington’s arcane budget rules that limited how much they could add… Read More »Republicans Want to Make the Trump Tax Cuts Last Forever

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President Trump’s self-proclaimed “liberation day,” in which he announced across-the-board tariffs on the United States’ trading partners, carries an echo of another moment when an… Read More »Trump’s Tariffs Will Wound Free Trade, but the Blow May Not Be Fatal

It was a bad week for Ben Coryell, who runs a wilderness guiding company in Golden, Colo. He got several calls from customers who wanted… Read More »Small Businesses Face a ‘Tornado’ of Challenges: Cuts, Freezes and Now Tariffs

There are no fail-safe formulas in Hollywood, but this one comes close: Take an established yet underexploited (or musty) cultural property — preferably one that… Read More »‘A Minecraft Movie’ Arrives as a Surprise Box Office Smash

Vietnam’s top leader, To Lam, has asked President Trump to delay the imposition of tariffs for at least 45 days so the two sides can… Read More »Vietnam Urges United States to Delay Imposing Tariffs On It

Through Covid, political chaos, and economic disarray, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh kept one industry central to their hopes of prosperity afloat: the manufacturing of ready-made… Read More »Trump’s Tariffs Hit Garment Makers in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka Hard

Shares in many major consumer brands plunged on Thursday, the day after President Trump announced steep tariffs on countries that produce lots of shoes and… Read More »Nike, Lululemon and Other Consumer Stocks Hit Hard by Trump’s Tariffs

For three years, the U.S. economy has been buffeted by rapid inflation, high interest rates and political instability at home and abroad. Yet it has… Read More »The Job Market Has Been Resilient. The Trade War Could Be Its Undoing.

Eight members of the OPEC Plus oil cartel, led by Saudi Arabia, said Thursday that they would accelerate their previously planned schedule to gradually add… Read More »Oil Producers Follow Trump’s Tariffs With a Surprise Increase

Grocery shoppers are likely to feel the impact of the Trump administration’s sweeping new tariffs before April is over. And the first place they’ll feel… Read More »Grocery Shoppers Will Feel the Tariffs First in Produce

President Trump’s threatened tariffs on countries that buy oil from Venezuela are another example of how his trade moves could hit China the hardest even… Read More »Trump’s Threatened Tariff on Buyers of Venezuelan Oil Could Squeeze China

With the tariffs that President Trump unveiled on Wednesday, he is not just closing America’s front door to Chinese exports — he is slamming the… Read More »Trump Blocked America’s Front Door to China. Now He’s Closing Back Doors.