The piano at the heart of August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson" is a complicated legacy. Once it belonged to Southern slave-owning families. But intricate portraits of members of the Charles family, who ...

China’s factory activity unexpectedly deteriorated after snapping its worst contraction streak on record in December, as the world’s second-largest economy struggles to pick up momentum. The official ...

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The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) came in at 48.2 in November, indicating contraction in U.S. manufacturing for a ninth straight month.

China's factory and service gauges stayed below 50, signaling continued contraction. High-tech manufacturing expanded, but construction and services cooled as holiday support faded. Data underline ...

The Japanese economy shrank 1.8 percent from the same quarter last year as U.S. tariffs dampened automobile exports and prompted a bleak outlook for growth. By River Akira Davis Reporting from Tokyo ...

The ISM (Institute of Supply Management) Manufacturing PMI fell to 48.7% in October, 0.4 points lower than the September figure of 49.1%. October’s reading indicates contraction at a faster rate and ...

Fed announces end to balance sheet winddown on December 1 Fed aims to keep markets with enough liquidity to maintain interest rate control Fed's Powell acknowledges Fed will soon have to expand ...

OTTAWA, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Canada's monthly gross domestic product rebounded from three months of contraction to grow by 0.2% in July as mining, manufacturing and wholesale trade boosted growth, data ...

Shakespeare famously wrote in The Tempest, “What’s past is prologue,” to express how events of the past set the stage for developments in the present. That sentiment was clear for health insurers in ...

A private gauge of China’s manufacturing activity returned to contractionary territory in July, as softening new business growth led factories to scale back production. The S&P Global China general ...

Canada’s economy appears to have eked out weak growth in the second quarter and is on track to beat economist and central bank estimates, suggesting forecasts of severe damage from the trade war may ...