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It’s been hot out there. Like water-main-breaking, train-slowing, corn-scorching, road-buckling hot — not to mention heat’s effects on human bodies, making it harder to work in construction and harvest crops.All of that...

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve continued its campaign of rapid interest rate increases on Wednesday, pushing up borrowing costs at the fastest pace in decades in an effort to wrestle inflation under...

A monthslong effort by Frontier Airlines to acquire Spirit Airlines abruptly ended on Wednesday when the companies called off their proposal, giving life to a rival bid for Spirit by JetBlue Airways.The...

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Just a week after introducing scheduled power outages in response to the soaring cost of fuel in Bangladesh, the government said it was seeking help from the International Monetary...

After a virtual meeting with tech manufacturing executives on Monday, President Biden was asked about his latest economic headache: How worried should Americans be that the country might be in a recession?“We’re...

The future of One America News, which established itself as a powerful voice in conservative media by promoting some of the most outlandish falsehoods about the 2020 election, is in serious doubt...

Shopify, the online marketplace, is laying off about 10 percent of its 10,000 employees, the company’s chief executive announced Tuesday, citing stagnating growth in the e-commerce space.The job cuts will affect teams...

General Motors is now being squeezed by inflation as well as a global computer chip shortage.The automaker said on Tuesday its profit fell by 40 percent in the three months ending in...

Consumer spending, for example, grew at a solid 1.8 percent annual rate in the first quarter, adjusted for inflation, and most forecasters believe it grew in the second quarter, too, albeit more...

President Biden and his aides on Monday escalated a campaign to try to convince American voters that the nation has not fallen into recession, before the release this week of new data...