ECONOMY & MARKETS

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew on Tuesday urged Congress to clamp down on inversion deals, calling them an "abuse of our tax system."

Many economists believe more policy support may be needed in coming months to sustain any recovery.

Climate change is expected to make droughts like California's worse and longer. Residents better get used to conservation, officials say.

The institution is designed to compete with the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

The lasting impact of World War I is still felt 100 years later in the form of pensions to widows and families.

The U.S. signed an arms deal, valued at $11 billion, to sell Patriot missiles and Apache attack helicopters to Qatar on Monday.

California spends more on clean energy and research than any other state.

A three-year drought is drying up the West's reservoirs.

Rejecting American claims, the WTO asked the country to “bring its measures in conformity with its obligations."

The targeted lending program, which was announced in June, is expected to disburse the first round of funds in September.

SEBI cautioned market participants in the country to beware of funds being funneled to terrorist groups.

Citigroup agreed to pay $7 billion to resolve a U.S. government investigation into shoddy mortgage-backed securities the bank sold in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis in a settlement set to be announced on Monday, sources said.

Airborne fine particulates are 3.5 times the international standard in Beijing.

On the first day of his Latin America tour, the Russian president canceled 90 percent of Cuba's debt to his country.

LeBron James returns to a Cleveland where optimistic residents see a booming downtown and other signs of economic recovery.

A new report says the uniquely American practice of compelling customers to subsidize tipped-worker incomes should end.

The CIA chief in Germany is the highest-ranking U.S. intelligence figure to be expelled from Germany, but not the first.

With the complex causes behind the influx of child migrants from Central America to the U.S., not everyone fits neatly under one label.

North America’s largest commuter rail service could stop operating as early as July 20 in ongoing labor dispute.

India's Narendra Modi-led BJP government presented an investor-friendly budget on Thursday.

The Federal Reserve has begun detailing how it plans to ease the U.S. economy out of an era of loose monetary policy.

New research suggests men earn more than women on insider trades due to the informal networks that male executives tend to build with each other.

The producer price index dropped 1.1 percent in its 28th straight month of decline.

Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang spoke at the Strategic Economic Dialogue between China and the U.S. in Beijing.

China's currency has been appreciating -- but the U.S. is still pushing for more.

Port workers joined truckers on strike in Los Angeles/Long Beach, amid a cooling-off period in heated contract negotiations.

Here, in a series of charts, are the biggest beneficiaries of the bank's financial services.

Critics say the project could destroy fragile ecosystems while lining the pockets of politicians and investors.

Brazil, the world’s fourth-largest auto market, is suffering an economic slump. Meanwhile, Mexico is enjoying a manufacturing boom.