The Federal Reserve reported yesterday that U.S. household net worth — the value of all assets such as stocks and real estate minus liabilities like mortgages and credit-card debt — rose by 1.9 percent or $2.07 trillion in the third quarter to $109.04 trillion, the Wall Street Journal reported. That was a smaller increase...

American companies that import products are paying record amounts in customs duties as more tariffs imposed by the Trump administration take effect, the Wall Street Journal reported. Tariff collections topped $5 billion in October, according to data from the Treasury Department and from Census Bureau data analyzed and released by...

The chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said on Thursday that the regulator will consider stricter rules for submitting shareholder proposals at annual meetings, including the ownership and resubmission threshold, Reuters reported. Jay Clayton, outlining the regulator’s agenda for 2019, said that the SEC...