Two new global economic forecasts warn that a recent stabilization is being threatened by heightened trade tensions, financial policy uncertainty and key trouble spots, like China. The Organization ...

Recent surges in trade policy uncertainty highlight the fragility of global supply chains, prompting businesses to consider reshoring—moving production from abroad to domestic locations. Reshoring can ...

The “Trump Round” of trade negotiations, as Jamieson Greer, America’s trade representative, calls it, was meant to reassert American primacy. Peter Navarro, a longtime adviser to Donald Trump, even ...

The trade world experienced unprecedented upheaval in 2025, but Asia still sees the rules-based trading system as the strongest foundation for its future. Trade is “in the blood” in Asia, and these ...

The US agricultural trade deficit hit a record high in the first half of 2025, underscoring the continued decline of American farmers’ long-dominant role in global exports amid President Donald ...

China’s world-leading export surplus delivered headline growth in 2025, but slowing domestic demand, falling prices and doubts over data credibility point to an economy losing momentum beneath the ...

You’re reading The Financial Page, John Cassidy’s weekly column on economics and politics. Georg Riekeles knows about hardball trade negotiations: during the long and arduous talks about the terms on ...

Fed Vice Chair Philip Jefferson said Monday that the evolving balance of risks-of stubborn inflation and weaker employment conditions-underscores the need to lower interest-rate slowly. Jefferson's ...

As was the case in the Trump 1.0 administration, a key policy objective of the Trump 2.0 administration is to reduce the trade deficit and to bring manufacturing jobs back home. However, as was the ...