Bloomberg The chief executive officer of the world’s biggest shipping company says curbs on immigration backed by the administration of President Donald Trump risk hurting the US economy. “The US economy is running at full steam and therefore wages have started to rise,” which “in itself is positive,” Soren Skou, the CEO of A. P. Moller-Maersk A/S, said in a ...

Bloomberg Figeac-Aero has a problem that says a lot about the French economy: the Airbus supplier can’t find enough qualified people to staff its factories. Even with one in 10 workers out of a job, companies cite difficulty in hiring as one of their biggest problems as a long-awaited economic recovery takes hold. The crunch is particularly acute for Patrice ...

After bottoming out at $438 billion and 2.4 percent of gross domestic product in fiscal 2015, the US federal deficit has started growing again. It was $666 billion (3.5 percent of GDP) in the fiscal year that ended in September, and with the big tax cut passed by Congress and signed by the president in December, and the moderately generous ...