Aug 14, 2025 | Markets
China’s economy slowed across the board in July with factory activity, investment and retail sales disappointing, suggesting Beijing’s crackdown on destructive price wars and spillovers from Donald Trump’s tariffs are casting a pall over the world’s No. 2 economy....
Aug 14, 2025 | Markets
Jackie Bezos, a fierce protector of her son Jeff before he founded Amazon.com Inc. and a deep-pocketed advocate for early childhood education, has died. She was 78. Bezos died at her home in Miami on Thursday, according to the Bezos Family Foundation’s website. In...
Aug 14, 2025 | Markets
The dollar is set for a toxic mix of a Federal Reserve cutting interest rates in the face of rising annual inflation, a damaging scenario last seen nearly two decades ago, according to Bank of America Corp. “If the Fed cutting cycle were to resume, any rate cuts in...
Aug 14, 2025 | Markets
Shares of Deere & Co. tumbled the most in over three years as the world’s biggest farm machinery maker pared its annual earnings outlook with lower grain prices curbing growers’ spending. The farm-machinery sector has been expected to bottom out this year, but a...
Aug 14, 2025 | Markets
Corporate America’s effort to boost margins and sustain US stock gains faces a key hurdle: a widening gap between consumer and producer prices, compounded by tariff uncertainties. Prices paid to US producers surged in July by the most in three years, adding to signs...
