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Continue reading the main storyRecent setbacks raise doubt about how quickly businesses can respond to customers who seem intent on spending freely.ImageContainer ships and oil tankers waiting in the ocean outside the Port of Long Beach in CaliforniaCredit...Lucy Nicholson/ReutersContainer ships stretch far out into...

Continue reading the main storyThe government set out to prop up the economy. It may also be propping up the market.Abraham Sanchez, a Sacramento musician, put $1,200 of his stimulus money last week into his Robinhood trading account.Credit...Salgu Wissmath for The New York TimesAbraham Sanchez knew exactly how he w...

The payments of up to $1,400 per individual are based on tax information filed with the Internal Revenue Service for 2019 or 2020.

The United States just lost 20 million jobs. The wrong federal response could make those layoffs a permanent fixture of the U.S. economy and sentence thousands of companies to bankruptcy.

The president, who has watched the economy plunge amid social distancing measures, says restrictions will be reassessed.

As the markets wobble over fears of a slowdown amid an escalating trade and currency war with China, the president defended policies that are rattling many businesses and investors.