The decision, a major reversal, could help poorer nations industrialize, cut planet-warming emissions and boost U.S. competitiveness on next-generation reactors.

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China’s central bank acted shortly after news that officials from China and the Trump administration will hold their first formal trade talks since the punishing tariffs began.

The economist Kenneth Rogoff traces the dollar’s rise — and potential fall.

Participants at the I.M.F and World Bank meetings this week reckoned with the prospect that the U.S. safe haven could lose its luster.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent argued in a speech that the multilateral economic institutions have veered away from their missions.