Some of the county’s biggest chains have signed a letter to the Chancellor sent by trade body British Retail Consortium.

Wall Street will be listening closely to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's speech Friday at the Jackson Hole economic policy summit, where he could signal whether the central bank is ready to cut ...

Walmart on Thursday raised its fiscal year sales and profit forecast, driven by strong demand from shoppers across all income ...

Statistics Canada's industrial product price index rose 0.7% from the month before. On a 12-month basis, the producer-price index was up for a 10th consecutive month, climbing 2.6% in July after a 1.9 ...

Medicare enrollees who buy the optional Part D drug benefit may see substantial premium price hikes — potentially up to $50 a month — when they shop for next year’s coverage.

Tesco has raised the price of its lunchtime meal deal in the latest example of rising food prices in the UK. The price of a main, snack and drink has gone up from £3.60 to £3.85 for Clubcard holders ...

Many Arizona retirees could get a break, as Phoenix-area inflation is running below the next COLA on Social Security payments.

The USD/ZAR exchange rate rose for the fourth consecutive day as market participants reacted to the latest South African inflation data.

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As their retirement has drawn closer, though, another concern has come into play: The rise of extreme weather events across the U.S. “Climate has become an extra cloud looming o ...

In mid-summer, employment statistics began to hint at a weakening in the economy, and with inflation apparently tepid, Washington started to press the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates. Claiming ...

The rate on a 30-year fixed refinance climbed to 6.62% today, according to the Mortgage Research Center. Rates averaged 5.54% for a 15-year financed mortgage and 6.35% for a 20-year financed mortgage.