Trump bellicosity and a volatile global economy has spurred the ditching of the U.S. dollar as the reserve currency. China is eager the Yuan to replace it.

In January, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to denounce Pakistan’s commitment to fighting terrorism. Twenty-four hours later,…

The Dow Jones Industrial Average opened Tuesday’s session with a stinging retreat that Wall Street experts are pinning to the White House’s freshly announced trade tariffs. Billionaire investor Jim Mellon, chairman of asset management firm Burnbrae Group, says it’s more than that, and the pain i…

The vote is a rebuke to President Donald Trump.

Has a tit-for-tat tariff spat between China and the U.S. shifted from a skirmish to a full-blown trade-war?

The Commerce Ministry in Beijing was reacting to news of US tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese goods.

Telecommunications equipment maker ZTE fell more than 40 percent in Hong Kong after its shares resumed trade there and in Shenzhen.

The pound rose on Tuesday after British Prime Minister Theresa May won a key vote in parliament with a compromise on plans to give lawmakers a 'meaningful' vote later this year on Brexit terms.

Unnecessary regulatory differences between countries can result in persistent barriers to trade.

President Donald Trump shook up a meeting of the leaders of the world’s richest countries with a proposal to eliminate all barriers to global trade, a shift from his aggressive tariff threats ahead of the summit.

Finance leaders of US allies have vented their anger over the Trump administration's metal import tariffs but ended a meeting in Canada with no solutions.

Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards claimed to have shot down an "intruding American spy drone" after it entered Iranian airspace, amid increased hostility between Washington and Tehran. CNN's Frederik Pleitgen reports.

A US official confirmed to CNN a drone had been shot down, but said th…

The U.S. administration is considering limits to Chinese video surveillance firm Hikvision’s ability to buy U.S. technology, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, in a move that deepens worries about trade frictions between the world’s two top economies.

The move would effectively plac…

Job creation ended 2018 on a powerful note, with nonfarm payrolls surging by 312,000 in December though the unemployment rate rose to 3.9 percent.

The jobless rate, which was last higher in June, rose for the right reason as 419,000 new workers entered the workforce and the labor force p…

The American dream is about the opportunity to earn happiness—and the government has a responsibility to facilitate that.

There was once a path to a stable and prosperous life in America that has since closed off. It was a well-traveled path for many Americans: Graduate from high school …

The leaders of the world's two largest economies, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, agreed to a temporary truce on trade at a highly anticipated dinner in Argentina. CNN's Steven Jiang has the details.

A ceasefire is better than an escalating trade war as far as investors are concerned.

Private analysts and the Federal Reserve say a slowdown is looming. Though few believe a recession is near, a slowdown in growth would have far-reaching implications.

What if that was as good as it gets?

The Commerce Department reported Friday that U.S. gross domestic product exp…

When China's stock market falls sharply, there's a good chance U.S. stocks — and some big blue chip names like Goldman Sachs and Caterpillar — go down with it.

The Shanghai Composite Index plunged 2.9 percent Tuesday, sending negative ripples through world markets. China stocks are now d…

Washington (CNN)The Trump White House may have too much at stake to make Saudi Arabia pay a proportionate price for the apparent murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

If Riyadh finds a scapegoat and absolves senior members of the royal family over the disappearance of The Washington Post columnist …

It will be harder to fight than the last one, says Ryan Avent.

One day, the forces that turned the palest, thinnest of green shoots after the financial crisis into the second-longest American economic expansion on record will change direction, igniting a new recession—for which the world…

After a nail-biting week with the Dow Jones Industrial Average sinking nearly 1,400 points over two sessions, the jury is still out on whether the selloff signals a fundamental shift in the stock market or a brief episodic correction. But one thing is certain, investors should brace for more dra…

President Donald Trump's assertions about the U.S.-China agreement to pause tariff escalations that emerged over the weekend do not appear to match the White House's official description of the agreement.

Following the conclusion of the G-20 summit in Argentina, the U.S. leader described…

Multiple Chinese warships shadowed the two US vessels during the transit in a move certain to anger Beijing.

The USS Curtis Wilbur and USS Antietam conducted a routine transit on Monday to demonstrate US commitment "to a free and open Indo-Pacific", Commander Nate Christensen, deputy spo…

Aliaga, Turkey (CNN)A Turkish court has freed US pastor Andrew Brunson two years after he was detained, charged with helping to plot a coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The case had soured relations between Turkey and the United States, heightened by President Donald Trump's d…

The administration unveiled the short-term bailout for tariff-hit farmers hours after President Trump proclaimed on Twitter: "Tariffs are the greatest!"

Allies of John Kasich say he's showing the American public why he could be an alternative to President Trump if he chooses to run in 2020. 

Mainstream economists across the political spectrum agree the tariffs will have a negative impact on the economy.