ECONOMY & MARKETS

Osborne will stress he is determined to fix the public finances in the coming years in a half-yearly update on the budget.

Big auto sales numbers last month -- the best in more than a decade -- helped the blue chip stock index set two records.

Black Friday deals pushed November car sales in the U.S. to highest level in more than a decade.

Putin and his government may try to shore up their popularity by diving further into the Ukraine crisis.

Ebola will hamper economic growth much more than expected in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, World Bank says.

Chinese banks are underestimating their exposure by keeping about $200B in property lending off the books, Standard & Poor’s says.

Pressure from Turkey and the threat of the Islamic State group helped bring the two parties together.

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 Index edged higher on Tuesday, driven by strong construction spending and auto sales.

Lower crude oil prices are good for U.S. consumers and bad for oil services firms as well as some oil-producing nations.

Economists have projected Russia’s economy will shrink by 0.8 percent in 2015. That would cause a recession — the first for Russia since 2009.

Under the deal, the first 18 planes will be made in France and shipped to India, while the remaining 108 will be produced by state-run HAL.

Northern Ireland has lobbied London to allow it to cut its corporate tax rate to better compete for jobs with Dublin.

The growing reservations about Japan come at an awkward time for Abe as he has called an election on Dec. 14.

Activists are rallying against the hunting of captive animals, but some say it’s good for the economy as well as conservation.

An early survey found Thanksgiving weekend sales fell 11 percent from last year, but experts say they're upbeat about holiday spending overall.

In the first 12 hours of Cyber Monday, online sales grew 9 percent from last year.

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 Index dipped on Monday, driven by losses following Japan's credit downgrade.

Two years into Peña Nieto's term, the president's reform drive has morphed into disillusionment and protests. Investors are watching warily.

The downgrade comes less than two weeks before Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seeks re-election at a snap poll.

A Reuters poll had expected manufacturing activity to lose some steam and predicted the index would fall to 51.2.

The official Purchasing Managers' Index still indicated a modest expansion in activity but below forecasts.

Crude oil’s price per barrel breathtakingly plunged to $66.15 Friday from $107.95 June 20, a dizzying drop of -$41.80, or -38.72 percent.

Arab League foreign ministers have created a draft resolution on Palestinian statehood for the U.N. Security Council.

Nearly 140 million U.S. consumers are expected to shop this weekend, but millions got a head start on Thursday night, says the National Retail Federation.

“Consumers today want more than just the discounts they've been showered with since the start of the recession."

Daniele Nouy told Reuters on Friday that simply finding more capital to plug shortfalls uncovered by the stress test may not be enough.

In only its fifth year in the UK, retailers and shoppers alike appear to be embracing the newly-imported Black Friday sales trend.