The Trump administration's long-awaited tax reform plan will propose slashing corporate taxes to 15 percent, from the current maximum of 35 percent, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said...
The US government put 271 Syrian chemists and other officials on its financial blacklist Monday, punishing them for their presumed role in the deadly chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town in...
The US government has imposed 'sweeping sanctions' on Syrian officials in response to the sarin gas attack the country's dictator hit civilians with earlier this month. The Treasury Department...
Global finance leaders from the IMF and World Bank have dropped a pledge to fight trade protectionism from the closing note of their spring meetings. An IMF statement said members would "work...
The political and economic crisis in Venezuela is costing US companies dearly, as General Motors can attest following the unexpected nationalization of its plant there. The big auto-maker shut down...
With fears rising that the Trump administration will follow through on its threats to raise trade barriers, world finance ministers are united on one message: protectionism threatens the global...
The Group of 20 major economies sent a message Friday on the threat that rising protectionism poses to the global economy, but the United States cast doubt over its adherence to that stance. US...
The Group of 20 major economies have reached a "broad consensus" that a continued rise in protectionism would be damaging to the global economy, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said...
The Trump administration's priority is boosting US growth through tax cuts and an overhaul of regulations, and a growing American economy will be good for the world, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin...
Donald Trump moves Tuesday to make good on one of his emblematic pledges -- "Buy American, Hire American" -- by issuing a decree on tightening skilled-worker visa rules, but his room for maneuver...
President Donald Trump takes credit for revitalizing the US economy even though he has not yet been in office for 100 days. But the new president's boasts of breathing life into the world's biggest...
US President Donald Trump reversed himself Wednesday and said China is not manipulating its currency to gain a trade advantage. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Trump appeared to lay to...
G7 foreign ministers have failed to agree on whether fresh sanctions should be imposed on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad or his ally Russia, Italy's Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano said Tuesday....
The US Treasury hit 11 North Korean business representatives and an industrial firm with sanctions Friday, seeking to further isolate the country's economy for pursuing nuclear weapons. Most of the...
Senior Senate Democrats on Thursday said they were demanding the US government investigate connections between President Donald Trump's real estate company and an Azerbaijani oligarch reported to...
After a crushing defeat in the effort to repeal Obamacare, the Trump administration is hoping for smoother sailing on tax reform, expecting this will be less divisive among Republican party factions....
President Donald Trump's enthusiasm for his 19th century predecessor Andrew Jackson is stoking fears he may cancel plans to replace that controversial president on the $20 bill with abolitionist...
Finance ministers from 20 world powers have failed to reach an agreement to endorse free trade and rejection of protectionism in the face of US opposition, according to the communique of the G20...
The United States remains committed to free trade but wants to re-examine some trade deals and correct their excesses, U. S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Saturday after G20 finance...
The United States on Saturday challenged long-standing global principles surrounding free trade, refusing to renew past anti-protectionist pledges and threatening to reopen negotiations on World...
