WASHINGTON -- The United States began the new fiscal year with a $257 billion budget deficit, a drastic increase from the prior year's start. The Treasury Department reported Wednesday the federal ...

A Republican sweep in the U.S. elections puts rating agency Morningstar DBRS “more on alert” regarding the country’s fiscal ...

Walt Disney's (DIS) fiscal fourth-quarter results exceeded market expectations buoyed by its streaming business, while the media and entertainment giant said it expects adjusted earnings growth in ...

Donald Trump won the election. The House and Senate are in Republican hands. That means the GOP now owns the debt and its ...

The Federal Government ran a $1.8T budget deficit for the fiscal year, with a $560B deficit in the last quarter alone.

Much larger fiscal adjustments than currently planned are required to stabilize (or reduce) debt with high probability. Now is an opportune time for rebuilding fiscal buffers and delaying is costly.

Gourinchas told a news conference on the IMF's latest forecasts that China's fiscal stimulus measures so far lacked detail and therefore were not included in the IMF's China growth outlook ...

The conflicting pressures of fiscal discipline and investment requirements find expression in two landmark EU initiatives this year: the bloc’s painstakingly negotiated new fiscal rules ...

Rules apply to the fiscal deficit - the gap between public expenditure and tax revenues in a year - the public debt ... By changing her definition of debt, she could find up to £50bn in ...

Rachel Reeves said that in the Budget next week she would set out two fiscal rules that the government ... in the spending settlements for next year in the Budget next week. There won't be a ...

Her predecessor Jeremy Hunt immediately criticised the plans, adding that the decision to change the definition ... the new fiscal rule, Ms Reeves would seek to fund about £20bn a year of extra ...