Improved data on borrowing costs and price growth has buoyed consumers, but it might be coming too late to significantly affect the presidential race

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New devices from Motorola and Google prove that phones with bendable screens keep getting better — and some are even becoming cheaper.

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The state is among a handful that will decide the presidential contest, and workers have felt increased prices at the grocery store and gas station.

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Optimistic words and some admirable proposals aren’t enough to overcome the discontent and anger that a large majority of Americans feel about the economy.

A gallon of regular gasoline in August was down nearly 12 percent from a year earlier, reflecting a fall in oil prices as well as a decline in demand.

Trump is promising something he can’t possibly deliver.

Are the thousands of empty properties scattered across the country any kind of solution?

Who you gonna believe, him or your lying eyes?

Antitrust regulators are finally catching up to the methods used by modern corporations to exert their power.

Some vegetables cost more than they have in five years. Top Chinese officials have made a point of showing that they’re doing something about it.

Despite war in the Middle East and political turmoil in Libya, investors are focusing on what look like ample global supplies.

Both Democrats and Republicans are expressing support for tariffs to protect American industry, reversing decades of trade thinking in Washington.