U.S. economic policymakers have been singularly focused on achieving a so-called soft landing that brings inflation down without a recession. Now, a new team of pilots are considering a course correction that,

Wall Street's main indexes fell in choppy trading on Tuesday after President Donald Trump announced fresh tariffs on Canada, adding to investor unease that his trade policies could trigger an economic slowdown.

In today's big story, Wall Street assumed that the stock market would act as a check on Donald Trump's new administration. That isn't panning out. What's on deck Markets: February was a bad month for big-name hedge funds.