President Donald Trump made at least nine false claims in his Friday remarks to reporters in the Oval Office – including a ...

The U.S. imported $1.2 trillion more in goods in 2024 than it exported, a record annual deficit and a major economic irritant for President Trump. On Feb. 13, the president announced that his ...

Whether we’re talking about purchases by consumers or businesses – domestic or international -- every market transaction ...

A Stock Market Alarm Is Sounding for the Third Time in 20 Years. History Says This Will Happen Next.

A trade balance is not a complicated concept; it’s simply the difference between what a nation exports—both goods and ...

Trump wants to reduce the $1.2 trillion trade deficit, so he’s putting tariffs on popular imported goods from smartphones to ...

This week’s Chart of the Week comes from Morningstar’s Senior U.S. Economist, Preston Caldwell. His article ‘Why tariffs will ...

first weeks of his second term in office. Trade deficits. Underpinning President Trump’s on-again, off-again tariff-led trade wars with Colombia, with Canada, with Mexico, with China ...

India's trade deficit hit a 42-month low at $14 billion in February 2025, primarily due to a slowdown in imports to $51 billion. Despite global uncertainties and fluctuating petroleum prices ...

Among the most common economic justifications for tariffs today is that they’re needed to shrink a U.S. trade deficit that has long cost us jobs and dragged down economic growth. On both the ...