Finance

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday confirmed Jerome Powell for a second four-year term as Federal Reserve chair, giving bipartisan...

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, responding to the recent sharp decline in the value of cryptocurrencies, said Thursday that...

BEIJING — China’s leaders are struggling to reverse an economic slump without giving up anti-virus tactics that shut down Shanghai...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s minimum wage will jump to $15.50 per hour next year, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration announced Thursday,...

Several licensed commercial banks in Sri Lanka today declared their selling rate of a USD at Rs. 365. The US...

SILVER SPRING, Md. — Cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase has lost half its value in the past week, including its biggest one-day...

Kendall Nunamaker and her family of five in Kennewick, Washington, faced impossible math this month: How to pay for gas,...

WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed economist Phillip Jefferson to the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors late Wednesday, the latest addition...

WASHINGTON — Erin Houchin braced for the worst when a mysterious, well-financed group started buying television ads last month in...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The South Asian nation of Sri Lanka is experiencing an unprecedented economic collapse that has pushed...