Modern economists attempt to define money by correlating it with economic activity. As Austrian economists know, money is ...

Unemployment, job turnover, and unemployment benefit applications are low. Employers in many industries are in low-hire, low-fire mode.

Some experts see a dangerous combination of factors reminiscent of practices that led to previous financial crises. By Patricia Cohen Patricia Cohen, the global economics correspondent, is based in ...

On its face, 2025 has been a good year for the stock market. The S&P 500 was dragged out of its tariff-induced springtime slump by a small subset of AI-forward power players whose spectacular gains ...

Do these two November metrics—a falling stock market and a falling approval rating for Trump—measure a single phenomenon? It’s complicated. I’m on record predicting a stock market crash and possibly a ...

While shoppers have been gearing up for the holiday season and making lists of potential gifts, Wall Street has been growing wary. For the first time in history, two of the S&P 500’s SPX key consumer ...

• The latest snapshot of the US labor market showed an unexpected rebound of 119,000 jobs in September but a loss for August and a lower total for July. The report was originally scheduled for October ...

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Ms. Patterson is an economist who has held senior positions at JPMorgan Chase and Bridgewater Associates. In the game of Jenga, players remove wooden blocks from a tower and place them on the top.

A previous version of this story inaccurately named the online brokerage firm TradeStation. Stock investors may be in for an unsettling start to the week ahead if doubts about the ...

The two biggest forces that have powered Wall Street’s record-setting rally this year are under attack, with investors now questioning both the fate of the artificial intelligence trade and the ...