Tag: economy

For the past decade Ethiopia has boasted of one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, welcoming billions of dollars in foreign direct investment from the U.S. and China and lifting more than ...

President-elect Joe Biden announced Thursday that he has selected Brian Deese, a former Obama climate and economic aide and head of sustainable investing at BlackRock, to serve as director of ...

The top question for the global economy is how quickly people will be given an effective vaccine against Covid-19, reducing the need for job- and business-destroying lockdowns. Economists at Goldman ...

The fading importance of America’s favourite shopping spreeOXFORD-DICTIONARY lexicologists recently declared “blursday” a word of the year. Pandemic-induced date confusion extends beyond self-isolating households. Best Buy, a large American electronics ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The surge in new COVID-19 infections is driving a fresh wave of restrictions in cities and counties across the United States.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin wants to funnel unspent stimulus money into the American economy, he said on Thursday evening. "I hope that Congress will seriously consider reallocating $580 billion of ...

The U.S. economy is now affected more by swings in coronavirus infections than it is by restrictions on certain activities, and a surge in infections could slow growth, New York ...

Joe Biden said his administration would strengthen the country's vulnerable economy despite the exploding pandemic as he pushed forward with the business of preparing to assume the presidency

The shock departure of Turkey's top two economic policymakers at the weekend sets the stage for an interest rate hike and other moves to halt a record slide in…

PARIS - France's economic activity is 12% lower than normal this month after the country entered a coronavirus lockdown for the second time this year, the central bank said on ...