US stocks close higher as investors price in a Fed rate cut soon and easing trade worries. EU delays retaliatory tariffs and Switzerland aims for deal ...

FILE PHOTO: A trader works, as screens broadcast a press conference by U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell following the ...

The removal of the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics is unlikely to change government data practices in the near ...

Trump’s attempt to bury unflattering information serves as a diversion from what could be a looming economic storm. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, says he believes the “economy is ...

Though the unemployment rate for the tech industry was largely unchanged in July, demand is soaring for AI and data-focused ...

Since his return to office, President Trump has waged something of a pressure campaign on economic data and the people in charge of delivering it. His firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics ...

Trump’s knee-jerk response to troublesome data is to deny it. He has eliminated climate change and disease statistics that ...

President Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner is raising concerns about whether her replacement could manipulate job numbers to work in his favor. The traditionally ...

In announcing the firing of the government’s chief labor statistician last week, President Trump condemned the works of Erika McEntarfer as “phony.” McEntarfer was just the 16th commissioner of ...

Economists and Wall Street investors have long considered the job figures reliable, with share prices and bond yields often ...

Staffing shortfalls have forced the BLS to stop collecting prices in Lincoln, Neb.; Provo, Utah; and Buffalo, N.Y. In the rest of the country, the bureau is also missing an average of about 15% of the ...

Economists say the rise in unemployment among Black Americans could be a troubling sign for the economy at large.