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The labor market’s holiday present for America: the highest unemployment in 4 years. It might be ‘noisy’ but the jobs just aren’t there

The November jobs report showed unemployment rose to a four-year-high.

By Eva Roytburg and Nick Lichtenberg

December 16, 2025

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez often praises the financial and social benefits that immigrants bring to the country.

In a continent cracking down on immigration and berated by Trump’s warnings of ‘civilizational erasure,’ Spain embraces migrants

By Suman Naishadham and The Associated Press

A combine harvester during a soybean harvest on a farm near Gregory, Arkansas, US, on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. Soybean futures edged higher after US President Donald Trump expressed optimism on striking a deal with China, fueling hopes that the world’s largest buyer of the oilseed might soon resume purchases of US supplies. Photographer: Rory Doyle/Bloomberg via Getty Images

More financially distressed farmers are expected to lose their property soon as loan repayments and incomes continue to falter

A U.S. soldier keeps watch during a patrol in Syria’s northeastern city Qamishli, in the Hasakeh province, mostly controlled by Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), on January 9, 2025. Turkey has long been rankled by United States support for the Kurdish-led SDF in northern Syria. Ankara sees the main component of the SDF, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), as an extension of its outlawed domestic foe the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). But Washington has long seen the SDF — which spearheaded the fight that defeated Islamic State group jihadists in 2019 — as crucial to preventing a jihadist resurgence in the area. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP) (Photo by DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump pledges retaliation after 3 Americans are killed in Syria attack that the U.S. blames on the Islamic State group

By Samar Kassabali, Bassem Mroue, and others

A Christmas tree outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. Stocks churned at the start of a week in which investors will search for clues on next year’s interest-rate path as they look beyond an all-but-certain cut at the Federal Reserve’s final meeting of 2025. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images

There have been head fakes before, but this time may be different as the latest stock rotation out of AI is just getting started, analysts say

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As boomers are forced back to work because they can’t afford to retire, Robinhood CEO says Gen Zers are opening retirement accounts at just 19 years old

By Emma Burleigh

November 24, 2025

Suddenly, the Fed interest rate cut in December looks like it is very much back on the table

Suddenly, the Fed interest rate cut in December looks like it is very much back on the table

November 24, 2025

Bessent says health-care announcement coming this week

Bessent says health-care announcement coming this week

By Tony Czuczka and Bloomberg

November 23, 2025

‘It didn’t have to be this way’: Top economist warns affordability crisis will continue as tariffs and immigration crackdown send inflation higher

‘It didn’t have to be this way’: Top economist warns affordability crisis will continue as tariffs and immigration crackdown send inflation higher

November 23, 2025

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Six-figure earners are ‘living the illusion of affluence’ while working side hustles, skipping meals, and pretending Venmo’s not working

November 23, 2025

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Trump White House prepares tariff fallback ahead of court ruling

By Josh Wingrove and Bloomberg

November 23, 2025

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Trump’s grip on party he remade weakens after string of setbacks

By Steven T. Dennis and Bloomberg

November 23, 2025

Zohran, Trump

Trump says he’d ‘feel very comfortable’ in Mamdani’s NYC

By Skylar Woodhouse, Katia Porzecanski and Bloomberg

November 23, 2025

Tea Party

‘All over again, taxation without representation’: Tea enthusiasts, historians argue tariff regime is the same as the American Revolution

By Matt Sedensky and The Associated Press

November 23, 2025

Albert Edwards

Analyst who called the dotcom bubble says Americans are turning a deaf ear to AI warnings—and a worse meltdown than 2008 looms

By Nick Lichtenberg

November 23, 2025

Fortune Archives: The Jewish mogul who shaped the Christmas shopping season

Fortune Archives: The Jewish mogul who shaped the Christmas shopping season

November 23, 2025

Linda McMahon

States stunned as Trump begins dismantling Department of Education

By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press

November 23, 2025

For-sale sign advertising a "new price" in front of a home in Washington, D.C.

More than half of U.S. homes have dropped in value over the last year—and nearly all houses in these cities have seen losses

November 22, 2025

Mathew Bowyer

Caesars Palace fined $7.8 million over Shohei Ohtani interpreter’s money laundering issues

By The Associated Press

November 22, 2025

The Fed is so divided that the next vote on rates could result in an unprecedented tie, analysts say. ‘Then things would get really messy’

The Fed is so divided that the next vote on rates could result in an unprecedented tie, analysts say. ‘Then things would get really messy’

November 22, 2025

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The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price

November 22, 2025

Trump, Lula

Lula stares down Trump and scores tariff victory for Brazil

By Daniel Carvalho, Augusta Saraiva, Dayanne Sousa and Bloomberg

November 22, 2025

Zohran Mamdani

The analyst who once predicted the ‘end of capitalism’ sees Zohran Mamdani’s election as a ‘day of reckoning coming in’—and corporates only have themselves to blame

By Nick Lichtenberg

November 22, 2025

A man stands in a soybean field and looks down at a soybean kernel in his palm.

‘We want to trust what we’ve heard’: Farmers remain unsettled on trade, even after China’s biggest U.S. soybean purchase in two years

By Sasha Rogelberg

November 21, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump listening to remarks.

Brazil hails ‘historic victory’ after months of pressure as Trump removes 40% tariffs on coffee imports

By The Associated Press

November 21, 2025

Why Nvidia is being punished for delivering a blockbuster earnings report

Why Nvidia is being punished for delivering a blockbuster earnings report

November 21, 2025

Jensen Huang looking dejected

The stock market’s ‘fear gauge’ spiked to its highest level since Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs caused a global selloff

November 21, 2025

Ben Zweig

Solving the ‘Tower of Babel’ problem of data transparency for investors

November 21, 2025

Private credit deals see a rise in ‘bad PIKs’ showing ‘cracks’ in the market for corporate debt

Private credit deals see a rise in ‘bad PIKs’ showing ‘cracks’ in the market for corporate debt

November 21, 2025

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Trump’s retreats on tariffs have already wiped out $800 billion of expected deficit reduction, CBO estimates

By Nick Lichtenberg

November 20, 2025

DOL

Economy adds 119,000 jobs in September but revisions show first year with multiple negative months since 2020

By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press

November 20, 2025

Elon Musk, wearing a suit, looks to the side and frowns.

Elon Musk says that in 10 to 20 years, work will be optional and money will be irrelevant thanks to AI and robotics

By Sasha Rogelberg

November 20, 2025

The Johor-Singapore SEZ will be more than an ‘industrial park with a nicer brochure,’ says the chair of the state’s investment committee

The Johor-Singapore SEZ will be more than an ‘industrial park with a nicer brochure,’ says the chair of the state’s investment committee

By Jonathan Gan

November 20, 2025

Trump addresses the press corps while motioning to Scott Bessent

Trump tells Scott Bessent to fix the Fed’s high interest rates or ‘I’m going to fire your ass’

November 20, 2025

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Home Depot blames its recent sales slump on a major funk in the housing market: ‘Our customers are homeowners’

November 20, 2025

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