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Business leaders support the visas as a way to bring talent to the U.S., while others say the program allows companies to hire foreign workers at lower wages than they would pay Americans.

During a roughly 30-day freeze in June 2010, the National Association of Realtors estimated 1,400 home sales were canceled or delayed each day.

Job openings remain at healthy levels but have fallen steadily since peaking at a record 12.1 million in March 2022 as the U.S. economy roared back from COVID-19 lockdowns.

The drop is bigger than analysts were expecting and the lowest reading since April, when President Donald Trump rolled out his sweeping tariff policy.

Senate Democrats say they won't vote for it unless Republicans include an extension of expiring health care benefits, among other demands.

It's the most expensive attempt to take a public company private. Under the terms of the deal announced Monday, the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, PIF and Affinity Partners will pay EA's stockholders $210 per share.

As the cost of homeownership soars across the country, renting has emerged as an increasingly popular alternative -- not just in cities, but in suburbs, too. John Yang speaks with Doug Ressler, manager of business intelligence at Yardi Matrix, to ...

The Commerce Department reported Friday that its personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index was up 2.7% in August from a year earlier, a tick higher from a 2.6% year-over-year increase in July and most since February.

The head of a U.S. congressional delegation visiting China said he backed renegotiating the rules governing the global economy to take into account China's rise and that of others such as India and Brazil.

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order declaring that the terms of a deal to effectively save TikTok meets the security concerns laid out under law.