A sovereign wealth fund often serves as a vehicle to invest a government’s budget surplus. The U.S. doesn’t have that luxury.

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A focus on GDP and national accounts gives a misleading picture of US economic power. In the age of globalization, production ...

China’s economy has grown impressively over the past several decades. It is now unquestionably the world’s second largest, and it has become far more innovative than it once was. But it is not nearly ...

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President Trump is remaking the tax code to favor the well-off even more and cloaking these changes in a veneer of ...

The yen shot to a 2-1/2 month high on Friday on the back of a jump in Japanese inflation, while the dollar was set for a third weekly drop in a row as traders ...

Australian shares edged higher while those in Japan ticked down due to the stronger local currency. Equity index futures ...

But even as the optics of the conference suggested that Musk, an unelected private citizen who is also the world’s richest ...

In a wide-ranging interview, the US treasury secretary reiterated his view that the world’s second-largest economy is ...

Longer-dated US Treasuries rose after Bessent’s comments. Ten-year yields were down about 2 basis points, at 4.51% as of 8:39 a.m. in New York. Yields remain well above their pre-pandemic levels, when ...