Claire Jones

1 week ago | rsn.org | Claire Jones |Kate Duguid

Rally in Wall Street’s S&P 500 share index comes after 177,000 jobs added in labour dataUS stocks rallied on Friday, wiping out the steep losses that followed Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariff announcement a month ago, after labour market data exceeded expectations. The 177,000 jobs added in April, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, surpassed the 135,000 predicted by economists polled by Bloomberg, although the number marked a fall from March.

1 week ago | ft.com | Claire Jones |Kate Duguid |Peter Wells

US stocks rallied on Friday, wiping out the steep losses that followed Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariff announcement a month ago,...

2 weeks ago | ft.com | Claire Jones |Stephanie Stacey |James Politi

The US trade deficit in goods surged to a record high in March as companies rushed to stockpile imports ahead of Donald Trump’s sweeping...

2 weeks ago | ft.com | Sam Fleming |Claire Jones

Sitting in a bland conference hall in Washington on Wednesday evening, Scott Bessent presented an unabashed defence of America’s trade...

3 weeks ago | ft.com | Claire Jones |James Politi

US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent has accused the IMF and World Bank of “mission creep”, calling for them to step back from “their...