The tech industry has a new strategy for getting us to upgrade our aging devices: artificial intelligence. Much of the industry’s revenue depends on us

Is a fresh housing boom under way? In April a house-price index for the world, excluding China, rose by more than 3% year on year

The accounting and finance professions have long adapted to technology — from calculators and spreadsheets to cloud computing. However, the emergence of generative artificial intelligence

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said the world risks a new “geopolitical divide” and urged governments to respect international trade rules. Repeated failures can

Markets await a raft of interest-rate decisions, including in the U.K., Australia, China, Indonesia, Switzerland and Norway, while the performance of French assets will be

Americans and the Federal Reserve have another positive development to celebrate: More evidence that price pressures are fading. Wholesale inflation cooled significantly in May, with

The global economy is finally on track to stabilize. That doesn’t mean it won’t face challenges. The World Bank on Tuesday raised its 2024 outlook

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s approach to cutting interest rates based on forecasts that inflation will continue moving lower could be summed up by the

The history of leveraged finance—the business of lending to risky, indebted companies—is best told in three acts. High-yield (or “junk”) bonds were the subject of