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CEO Jim Farley's warning comes on the heels of a high-profile visit last week by Chinese President Xi Jinping with President Donald Trump
The higher-than-consensus expectations are a bet that the U.S. had another strong month of job growth.
Data is expected to show ongoing price pressures and consumers who nevertheless continue to spend.
Could conventional EMP weapons disrupt modern warships? The answer leads from electromagnetic warfare to implications for satellites, AI, and an increasingly unstable arms race.
The Treasury Department announced that Trump Accounts will begin auto-enrolling eligible children. Here's what families need to know.
U.S. homeowners have more housing wealth than ever before, thanks to fast-rising home prices over the last several years. But they aren't spending much of it.
Trump called the new website, America.gov, "a restoration of America's founding promise."
De-dollarization is simply not happening. Foreign investors are active dollar buyers. .
Haji Mohammad Shafi spent 44 years in Pakistan before he was forced to leave. He sold everything he owned and returned to Afghanistan with his five children, arriving with almost nothing.
Food waste is helping to fuel global warming, one half-eaten sandwich at a time.
Lisa Mantil, after a nearly three-decade run at Goldman, will join the prediction market's team to attract institutional traders.
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