The survey, which crept up to 57.3 in February, is a positive signal that Americans’ economic mood is improving despite anxieties about inflation and the job market

Gangs, illegal supply chains and misconduct diminish the allure of Africa’s largest economy

Financialization is a grift, a rarified form of bookmaking, of no net value to workers and consumers, the economy, or society as a whole. Let’s treat it accordingly. Economists and the news media can stop using the word “invest” in contexts where no investing occurs. “Speculate” or “bet” will do just fine.

Agency’s report comes week after MSCI warned of south-east Asian country’s ‘investability’

Once a distant second or third in the AI race, the company is moving to the front with a focus on caution, coding and business clients

Automaker says it overestimated demand for electric vehicles

Neither side moved from their initial position, but Iran said it was open to further talks

Despite their name, which derives from an archaic 18th-century term, rare earths are abundant across the planet. Opening a viable rare-earth mine is difficult. Mines can take years before becoming productive. This fixation on mining ignores the industry’s dirty little secret: It is tremendously wasteful. The United States has immense quantities of rare earths and other critical minerals sitting in thousands of mining waste sites.

Stocks tumble despite strong earnings reports from most Silicon Valley heavyweights

European assets look like a haven from President Donald Trump’s mercurial U.S. policy and a possible implosion of U.S. tech stocks.