WSJ Economy

The Reserve Bank of India held interest rates steady at 5.25% but lowered its growth forecasts and increased its inflation projections.

The oil shock triggered by the U.S.-Iran conflict has damaged the global economy’s prospects, Fitch Ratings warned.

We asked economists from across the political spectrum for their policy prescriptions. Their suggestions run the gamut.

We wrote about how older Americans are accumulating trillions in wealth for themselves. Readers told us that wasn’t the full story.

U.S. jobless claims rose to 225,000 last week, but the level was still within a range consistent with a healthy labor market.

U.S.-based employers announced 97,006 job cuts in May with technology remaining the leading sector for staff reductions.

GDP was 12.1% smaller in the three months through March than it was in the previous quarter, according to Ireland’s Central Statistics Office.

Swiss inflation was unchanged in May, reinforcing the view that the Swiss National Bank is unlikely to raise interest rates later this month.

Will the administration’s new attempt to impose broad tariffs stick?

Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan gave one of the most direct warnings yet from a U.S. central banker that the Federal Reserve may need to tighten monetary policy.

U.S. businesses endured another month of energy-driven price increases and economic uncertainty in the third month of the Iran conflict, according to a recent survey from the Federal Reserve.

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said products of Canada, Mexico, Taiwan, the EU and the U.K., among other countries, would face a 10% duty.

Private companies added a net 122,000 jobs in May, ADP said, compared with 105,000 additions in April and economists expectations of 110,000 new jobs.

Japan’s central bank could look past Middle East uncertainty and raise interest rates if inflation becomes a bigger threat to the economy than the risk of slowing growth, Gov. Kazuo Ueda said.

Should the disruption to energy production and shipping stretch well into next year, global growth could slide to 2.1% in 2026—the weakest this century outside 2009 and 2020.

One of the new advisers to the new Fed chairman previously helped write a chapter for Project 2025, the conservative policy blueprint, that recommended a radical restructuring of the central bank.

U.S. job openings increased to 7.6 million in April, from 6.9 million in March. Meanwhile, the hiring rate worsened to 3.2% in April from 3.5% in March, with about 5.1 million Americans landing new jobs in April.

Total exports in April were around 17% down compared with a year prior due to a pronounced decline in U.S.-bound shipments.

Under its new chief executive, Greg Abel, Berkshire raises its bet on a market recovery by adding another housing company to its portfolio.

In a poll, more than half of respondents consider themselves financially “conflicted.”