Holiday shopping will be missing something this year – as much seasonal help in stores to help shoppers as normal.

The US labor market has weakened over the course of the year as hiring has stalled across many industries. The national unemployment rate has ratcheted higher in the process, hitting 4.4% in September ...

“The economy is struggling to create jobs. The unemployment rate is low but it’s now showing some stress,” Zandi said, adding ...

US retail sales on Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year, climbed 4.1% compared with last year, according to data released Saturday by Mastercard SpendingPulse. Online shoppers alone ...

The Labor Department is finally releasing the jobs report for September, which was delayed for weeks due to the government shutdown. It is expected to show the economy added around 50,000 jobs that ...

Key monthly metrics from the US government continue to be released now that the shutdown has ended. Next up: September wholesale inflation and retail sales.

Something in the US economy isn’t adding up, and it’s rattling the people charged with wrangling inflation and keeping the labor market intact.

The K-shaped economy has been a growing problem for decades, made worse by the loss of guaranteed worker pensions, the rise of the gig economy, increasing health-care inflation, the high cost of ...

“Consumers are paying more per item than last year, but it’s not stopping them from coming out and spending,” Caila Schwartz, director of consumer insights at Salesforce, told CNN in a phone interview ...

For proof that an economy can thrive even under constant military threats from a powerful neighbor and amid US President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, look no further than Taiwan.

Britain’s unpopular center-left Labour government sought to seize the political narrative Wednesday with a tax-raising budget that it hopes will boost economic growth, reduce child poverty and ease ...