EU and UK officials will resume trade talks in London later at the start of another key week for the negotiations. They will try to bridge what the two sides have said are still significant differences on fishing quotas and competition issues. Boris Johnson said on...

China is contributing to the world economy during the COVID-19 pandemic with strong imports of food, said a top official of the country’s Ministry of Commerce on Saturday at the third China International Import Expo. China imported US$124.4 billion worth of food in...

The U.S. economy could backtrack given the intensifying spread of Covid-19 and the lack of additional support measures, said Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics.The U.S. recorded more than 100,000 daily confirmed coronavirus cases for the first time on...

Companies added 365,000 positions for the month, according to ADP, well below the 600,000 estimate from a Dow Jones economist survey.The total was also much lower than the 753,000 from September and the lowest since July.Services-related businesses were responsible...

U.S. manufacturing activity accelerated in October, with new orders jumping to their highest level in nearly 17 years amid a shift in spending toward goods like motor vehicles as the COVID-19 pandemic drags on.The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) said on Monday...

The Caixin/Markit Purchasing Managers’ Index for Chinese manufacturing came in at 53.6 for October, better than the 53.0 forecast by analysts in a Reuters poll.The latest reading was the highest since January 2011, the survey results showed.Over the weekend, China...

The Federal Reserve has lowered the barriers on its lending program for smaller businesses as part of an effort to broaden the appeal of the sparsely used facility.The Fed said it is reducing the minimum loan size to $100,000 from $250,000.The central bank will also...

New record rises in daily Covid-19 cases have been seen in the U.S., Russia and France in recent days, while the U.K. is set to extend its highest category alert to more cities.The U.K. has warned that time is running out as the European Union’s top negotiator Michel...

In previous downturns, commercial property loan losses were “heavy” and there are worrying signs that such a trend could be repeated this time during the pandemic-induced slowdown, Oxford Economics’ Adam Slater said in a report.During the 2008 great financial crisis,...

Speculation about the dollar’s hegemonic decline is premature. The global financial plumbing is relatively inflexible in the short term. It will not change quickly or inexpensively. It took a century of New York banks’ financial activism and extensive global interbank...

The number of workers collecting state unemployment insurance fell by more than 1 million people, to 8 million, during the week ended Oct. 10.That doesn’t mean 1 million people went back to work.By one estimate, about half the decline is due to other factors. They...

U.S. stimulus talks remain in focus.Corporate earnings are a key driver of individual share price action Thursday. LONDON — European stocks traded in negative territory Thursday amid continuing uncertainty over U.S. coronavirus stimulus. The pan-European Stoxx...