Trump's tariffs stunned Main Street. Now they could starve Wall Street. Social-spending cuts plus the Trump tariffs may lead the U.S. to a recession and actually increase the budget deficit. Stock and ...

Stocks tumbled Wednesday amid signs that tariffs are weighing on consumer spending and investor concerns about the U.S. fiscal outlook.

Treasury yields have been on the rise in part because of concerns that tax cuts currently under consideration in Washington ...

As a revenue source, tariffs are unlikely to be sufficient to balance a multi-trillion-dollar U.S. deficit. Because tariffs are expected to be transitory, the deficit for a while will likely decline, ...

A. Wall Street's own view of U.S. creditworthiness signals that debt ratings should be closer to BBB+ when looking at ...

Worries may persist for a few weeks about Moody's U.S. credit rating downgrade, but the historical indicators of the U.S. economy, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite, ...

The Dow closed lower by 817 points, or 1.91%. The broader S&P 500 slid 1.61% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell 1.41%. The three major indexes each posted their worst day in one month. Stocks ...

Moody’s just stripped the U.S. of its last triple-A sovereign rating—and while markets have taken the news so far in stride, ...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped ... Investor anxieties about that bill, combined with Moody’s Ratings stripping the U.S. of its triple-A credit rating late last week, have pushed ...

Rising interest rates, shaky markets, and higher borrowing costs could all follow Moody's historic downgrade of the U.S.

An economist explains why the recent credit rating downgrades for major U.S. banks might not carry a big impact.