New warnings from financial firms and insurers point to a future defined by profound risks to the global economy from heat, storms and other disasters.

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Eager to stay in Mr. Trump’s good graces, oil executives refrain from publicly criticizing the president. But privately, ‘Everybody’s afraid.’

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Crude oil now costs 15 percent less than it did before the president revealed his plans to impose stiff new tariffs on imports from most countries.

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Shocked by Trump’s trade war, foreign investors are selling U.S. government bonds, long the world’s safe haven.

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The president said his advisers would devise new tariff levels reflecting countries’ tariffs, taxes, subsidies and other policies affecting trade with the United States.

Economists warn that enacting tariffs at a time of persisting price pressures is a risky move.

The Consumer Price Index rose 3.0 percent from a year earlier as food and energy prices picked up.

President Trump pledged to lower costs on “Day 1” as a candidate. His administration now acknowledges it will take more time.

Investors are now betting that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates just once more this year, a drastic shift in expectations since late 2024.

Duties of 25 percent on steel and aluminum will flow through to car buyers, beer drinkers, home builders, oil drillers and other users of metal goods.

Jerome H. Powell is set to testify as inflation risks are resurfacing, regulatory changes are in flux and the Federal Reserve’s policy independence is in the spotlight.

U.S. employers added 143,000 jobs last month, somewhat fewer than forecast, while unemployment fell to 4 percent and hourly earnings rose.

A new analysis predicts an extraordinary reversal in housing fortunes for Americans.

The invoking of national security to unravel trade agreements could scramble the international trading system in China’s favor.

President Trump has insisted that his new tariffs on America’s largest trading partners will not increase prices for Americans. But a review of how they work suggests that is not the case.

General Motors and a few other companies make as much as 40 percent of their North American cars and trucks in Canada and Mexico, leaving them vulnerable to tariffs.

China chose swift retaliation for trade measures in the first Trump administration, but that led to an upward spiral of trade measures and much broader tariffs.

A poll from The New York Times and Ipsos found that Americans believe abortion, L.G.B.T.Q. issues and climate change concern Democrats more than the cost of living.

Ties between the United States and Mexico have deepened over 30 years of free trade, creating both benefits and irritants.

Long a focus of conservatives, the level of public borrowing is starting to concern left-leaning economists. Proposed remedies still differ radically.