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Many important U.S. trading partners are facing higher duties after President Trump, reacting to a Supreme Court setback, set the rate on a new set of global tariffs at 15 percent.

Steep declines in the shares of private lenders, after a major fund changed how investors can withdraw money, have sparked worries about more trouble to come.

Oil prices spiked and stocks fell as tensions between Washington and Tehran unnerved investors.

Shoppers are turning to Walmart to stretch their dollars, but an uncertain economy and trade tensions will test the retailer’s new executive team.

Meta’s biggest election investment aims to prevent state legislation that it fears could inhibit artificial intelligence development. Its spending starts this week in Texas and Ill

A market rout may have decimated the crypto industry. But its machine in Washington may power proposed regulation past concerned Democrats.

The takeover battle took a new turn on Tuesday as Warner Bros. Discovery reopened talks with its rebuffed suitor. But big questions still remain.

Warner Bros. Discovery had agreed to sell itself to Netflix, but its contract allows it to pursue offers that may lead to a superior deal.

As their stocks tank, software makers are rebranding themselves as A.I. innovators. Sparkle emojis are everywhere, but some efforts have been more successful than others.

The Wall Street giant’s top lawyer, whose ties to Jeffrey Epstein had raised questions at the firm, has resigned. Other corporate leaders are also facing blowback.

Anthropic is pouring millions of dollars into a political action committee that will most likely face off against OpenAI.

A hiring slowdown and fears about artificial intelligence have investors on edge, and some in the Trump administration on the defensive.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Casey Wasserman, the entertainment mogul, are among those facing blowback amid the release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein.

The British energy giant said it would put money toward new oil and gas opportunities ahead of the arrival of its new chief executive, Meg O’Neill.

E.W. Scripps is selling the channel to the parent company of Law&Crime, which wants Court TV to have a bigger streaming presence.