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The Obama administration’s signature program to aid struggling homeowners has hit another speed bump: The mortgage companies processing applications can’t keep up with demand. [...]

Consumers turned more upbeat about the economy this month, according to a consumer confidence report. Better sentiment about job availability supports expectations for a good increase in July [...]

Home prices across the U.S. slowed sharply to a single-digit pace in May on a year-over-year basis, the slowest rate since February 2013, according to a home-price report. [...]

The number of contracts signed to buy previously-owned homes slipped in June, a sign the housing recovery remains choppy despite a retreat in interest [...]

Federal Reserve officials will likely move closer to ending their purchases of mortgage and Treasury bonds at a policy meeting next week and discuss when and how to raise interest [...]

Orders for big-ticket manufactured goods rebounded in June, a sign that capital investment by businesses could boost U.S. economic growth heading into the second half of the year. But shipments of core capital goods fell, prompting some economists to trim their forecasts of second-quarter [...]

Demand for new homes slowed sharply during the first half, a development that threatens to reverberate beyond the housing market and throughout the broader [...]

As the U.S. and its allies press for a halt to fighting in Gaza, they face a vexing question: how to rebuild the Palestinian territory and open its borders without posing a threat to Israel’s security. [...]

New applications for unemployment benefits plunged last week, reaching an 8½-year low and offering the latest signs of strength in the labor [...]

The International Monetary Fund revised its growth outlook for the U.S. economy for the second time in two months after a first-quarter contraction turned out to be worse than the fund originally [...]

A broad measure of U.S. home sales climbed for the third consecutive month in June, a sign the housing market is gaining steam after a monthslong [...]

U.S. consumer inflation continued to stiffen last month but largely decelerated outside a jump in gasoline prices, and food costs in particular slowed after surging in recent [...]

Essay: Economic mobility is alive and well for Americans who pursue technical or practical training. The U.S. economy’s future could lie along the career paths of welders, nurses and franchise [...]

Hedge funds used a tax avoidance technique offered by Wall Street banks for years to skirt federal leverage trading limits, with one well-known trading firm potentially saving $6.8 billion in U.S. taxes, Senate investigators [...]

Outlook: Hit by the recession, a number of European governments cut capital spending on transportation, housing, education and other areas, a move that some experts say will harm economic [...]

Forget about escape velocity. The U.S. economy in 2014 is likely to record another disappointing year of growth, according to the latest Wall Street Journal survey of [...]

U.S. home construction tumbled in June due to a stretch of wet weather in the South, a decline that analysts said was likely a temporary departure from a trend of recovery in the housing [...]

Investors wrestling with the mysterious U.S. bond rally of 2014 got a clue about where to look: [...]

Hu-Friedy, a maker of dental instruments, is paying workers to leave for two years as part of a company apprenticeship program. What’s happening there is a rare exception to corporate disinvestment in [...]

After three months as one of the top-performing currencies against the U.S. dollar, the loonie has begun to [...]

New applications for unemployment benefits fell last week, a fresh sign of an improving labor market. [...]

Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen pushed back against House Republicans’ proposal to require the central bank to adopt a formal, mathematical rule to guide its interest-rate [...]

U.S. economic activity continued to expand over the summer, with spending on tourism, auto sales and retail sales growing and the country experiencing growth in employment, according to the Federal Reserve’s survey of regional economic conditions released [...]

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher said that mounting signs of financial-market excess and continued economic growth mean the U.S. central bank will need to raise interest rates by early next year “or potentially [...]

Home-builder optimism rose to a six-month high in July as the strengthening labor market boosted the outlook for home sales, according to a National Association of Home Builders [...]

U.S. industrial production increased modestly in June, the latest sign of steady but slow improvement in consumer and business spending during the second [...]

A gauge of producer-price inflation ticked higher last month, a new sign that consumer prices could be slowly moving closer to the Federal Reserve’s target [...]

Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen defended keeping interest rates low before Congress, but opened the door a crack to earlier-than-planned rate hikes if the labor market continues its surprising [...]

American consumers stepped up spending modestly in June, a sign the economy rebounded from a harsh winter but remains laggard [...]

China is injecting significantly more money into its economy in a move that could signal support for stronger economic growth in the second half of the year, even as it raises longer-term [...]

Quitting a job often can be a good thing, but not enough workers have been doing it. Fewer U.S. workers have been voluntarily changing jobs as the recovery remains too weak for “churns,” stunting their earnings [...]

Central-bank economic models failed to foresee the storm that devastated the global economy in 2008. Stephen Poloz, the head of Canada’s central bank, is trying an alternative approach he thinks will have better foresight: actual human [...]

What should worry investors is how growth appears to be stalling in some of the euro zone’s biggest [...]

Brazil hosts a meeting with Russia, India, China and South Africa where the formation of a development bank to rival the World Bank and IMF is high on [...]

India’s new government said it would overhaul extensive subsidy programs for the poor and roll out a series of more business-friendly measures in an effort to create jobs and boost economic [...]

A debate is intensifying among the Federal Reserve’s regional bank presidents about whether to push interest rates up from zero sooner than planned because of recent improvements in the U.S. job [...]

Argentina representatives and bondholders met Friday separately with a court-appointed mediator in New York in an effort to resolve a creditor dispute that could see Argentina default on its [...]

The federal government’s deficit from October through June totaled $366 billion, down 28% from the same period a year earlier, the U.S. Treasury said. [...]

Growing numbers of small-business owners say unfilled job openings are thwarting their growth at a time of improved confidence in the [...]

The White House released an upbeat outlook for the labor market, projecting the jobless rate will be “stabilizing” at 5.4% in 2017. However, it also predicted weaker economic [...]

Both Peru and Chile are easing monetary policies to boost growth, while also seeking ways to attract more investments, especially in the key mining sectors, as the countries have seen their respective economies experience slow [...]

People struggling to pay down student loans and other debt may resort to filing for bankruptcy, which generally offers a fresh start. But they often end up owing even more on their school loans at the end of the [...]

American retailers may have more than a weather problem. For many stores, customer traffic has slowed and sales weakened in the spring, when warmer temperatures had been expected to help [...]

Fed officials agreed at June’s policy meeting to end their bond-buying program in October, giving the experiment an explicit end date for the first time. [...]

New applications for unemployment benefits fell last week, a sign the labor market continues to strengthen. But some economists expect an uptick in claims in the coming [...]