While inflation has slowed overall, the costs of things Americans often want or need most continue to rise.

Bankruptcies and loan delinquencies among small businesses are heading higher, and layoffs are mounting.

US job growth remained sluggish in November and the unemployment rate rose to a four-year high, pointing to a continued cooling in the labor market after a weak October.

President Donald Trump is heading into the 2026 election year vowing to pull out all the stops to promote artificial intelligence — just as American voters are starting to voice some doubts.

Across the US, affordability concerns are intensifying and infusing the political conversation. Bloomberg reporters want to hear your story.

President Donald Trump has been back in office long enough for Americans to expect at least glimmers of the economic golden age he promised. Instead, warning signals are flashing.

A delayed snapshot of inflation in September came in softer than expected, potentially offering a path for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates beyond next week’s meeting.

Credit-card data and other private-sector alternatives to the official US retail sales report largely suggest consumer demand moderated last month after a vigorous stretch of spending this summer.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said sweeping away the extensive regulatory burdens hampering domestic manufacturing is an “unheralded” part of Donald Trump’s agenda that would start paying di...

US President Donald Trump says his tariffs will spark a “manufacturing renaissance.” But the duties themselves are making that already monumental task even more challenging.

Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff announcement set off the most volatile stretch of his second term, with financial markets descending into chaos, China unleashing retaliatory measures and the US...