"The combination of diminished appetite to buy U.S. assets and the rigidity of a U.S. fiscal process that locks in very high ...

Maine has laid off a fifth of its staff and temporarily closed its state library after not receiving the remainder of its ...

California’s High Speed Rail project may soon face a $10.2 billion budget gap, even larger than what lawmakers expected two ...

“This shifts the negotiating dynamic,” Stephen Olson, a former U.S. trade negotiator, told Bloomberg. “Many countries will ...

Conventional wisdom says new tariffs should have strengthened the dollar, since the import taxes were expected to reduce ...

After recovering from an initial jolt, U.S. stocks drifted through quiet trading following the latest reminder that the U.S. government may be hurtling toward an unsustainable mountain of debt.

The “Sell America” sentiment is hitting Wall Street again and U.S. stocks, U.S. bonds and the value of the U.S. dollar are ...

The World Health Organization chief on Monday appealed to member countries to support its “extremely modest” request for a $2 ...

Stocks wobbled, the dollar slipped and bond yields jumped after a rating downgrade highlighted worries about the cost of ...

Brazil's central bank does not see any realistic prospect of emerging nations in the BRICS group creating markets large ...

The United States has officially lost its perfect credit rating. On Friday, Moody’s for the first time in its history ...