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President Trump is increasing his global tariff to 15%. That's up from the 10% rate that he initially announced after the ...

A prominent economist is warning the official cash rate will need to be hiked five times to get above 5 per cent due to runaway government spending that is reshaping Australia's economy. Government ...

President Trump says the economy is “roaring like never before.” Here’s how inflation, jobs and stocks changed in 2025.

Shares, having not done too much on Monday, when the US S&P 500 even finished higher, have now turned significantly downwards, with European markets seeing the biggest falls since the aftermath of US ...

The real news of the President’s Eco nomic Report to Congress last week is not prosperity-for, by now, the whole world knows that the U.S. is fabulously prosperous, and expecting to be more so. The ...

Beijing has lowered its official 2026 growth target to between 4.5% and 5%— its least ambitious goal since 1991 and a steep comedown from the double-digit expansion of past years.

Steven Hail argues New Zealand is enduring a period of economic self-harm and offers a way to end this and create a future ...

Economists had forecast a gain of 60,000 jobs last month. The unexpected drop was due to job losses in health care and the ...

Here are six charts that explain what’s happening inside China’s economy. A Slumping Property Market. For decades, housing was one of China’s most powerful growth engines, t ...

Real GDP rose at an annualized rate of 1.4% in the fourth quarter, missing the expected 2.8%.

Donald Trump’s decision to join Israel and attack Iran last week has sparked fears of conflagration in the Middle East and roiled global energy markets. Since February 28, the U ...