Mnuchin: 'We Were About 90% Of The Way' On China Trade Deal And There's A 'path To Complete This'
Mnuchin tells CNBC he's confident President Trump and China's Xi Jinping can make progress in stalled trade talks. Read more
The Trade War Is Weighing On Chinese Home Buying In The US
Trade tensions appear to have depressed Chinese property purchases in the United States. Beijing's own actions may also ... Read more
Trump And Xi Meet Saturday — If It Goes Poorly, The Global Economy Could Teeter Into Recession
Stocks should rally if the U.S. and China agree to new negotiations and a ceasefire in the trade war, but the economic i... Read more
Major Companies Are Ringing Alarm Bells, Trying To Warn Washington About More Tariffs
More than 300 companies are talking to government officials in Washington about how detrimental the trade war is. Read more
Fed Chief Jerome Powell Warns Against Policy Bending To 'short-term Political Interests'
Powell stresses the central bank's independence amid continuous pressure from President Donald Trump to cut interest rat... Read more
New Home Sales Sank 7.8% In May, Despite A Big Drop In Mortgage Rates
Buyers pulled away from the builders in May, even as affordability improved, thanks to lower mortgage rates. Read more
Consumer Confidence Drops More Than Expected, Reaching Its Lowest Point In Nearly Two Years
The Conference Board, a business research group, on Tuesday released the June update for its consumer confidence index. Read more
Debt And Deficits Won't Be As Bad As Feared But Are Still Dangerous, CBO Says
The national debt will rise to 141% of the economy over the next 30 years — 11 percentage points lower than the agency... Read more
G-20 Leaders Face Toxic Brew Of Political Instability, Trade Tensions And Slowing Global Growth
What makes this moment even more perilous is that world leaders come to the table with far less cohesiveness, nursing wo... Read more
Gains In Home Prices Shrink Slightly, But S&P Case-Shiller Shows Some Cities' Prices Are Heating Up Again
Home prices in April were 3.5% higher than a year earlier, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National... Read more
Fed's Kaplan Says It's 'too Early' To Decide If Interest Rates Need To Be Cut
"I believe it would be wise to take additional time and allow events to unfold" before deciding on rates, the Dallas Fed... Read more
Billionaires To Trump And Other 2020 Candidates: Please Tax Us
Nineteen billionaires release a letter asking the 2020 presidential candidates to support a tax on America's richest fam... Read more
Bernie Sanders Plans To Cancel All $1.6 Trillion Of Student Debt By Taxing Wall Street
Sen. Bernie Sanders announced a plan on Monday to forgive the country's $1.6 trillion outstanding student loan tab. Read more
A Fed President Explained Why He Was The Lone Member Who Wanted An 'insurance' Cut This Week
In a statement Friday, Bullard explains his vote against the decision to leave its benchmark interest rate unchanged. Read more
The Trump Economy Is Starting To Look More And More Like The Obama Economy
It wasn't supposed to be this way: The 2017 tax cut and deregulation were supposed to pull the economy out of its glacia... Read more