ECONOMY & MARKETS

Export orders from the East Asian state grew nearly 11 percent compared to a year earlier.

A failure could prove disastrous for the moribund World Trade Organization (WTO) and the system of global free trade deals it underpins.

The Alibaba IPO, to be launched in September, will benefit relatives of many Chinese officials who are large stakeholders in the company.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is among the major companies expected to issue financial reports in the next couple of weeks.

World markets may recover after geopolitical shocks, but the outlook is less rosy for Russia.

The Dutch government has consistently refused to take a hard line over Moscow. Will that change with almost 200 of its people dead?

As production surges, the state's pipeline authority says oil moving by rail hasn't been this low since November 2012.

China's economy dwarfs the other members of the BRICS. Why does Beijing even need to share power in a new development bank?

The ADB kept its growth forecast for China at 7.5 percent in 2014 and 7.4 percent in 2015.

New Pew Research Center study finds record number of multi-generational households, with young adults leading the charge to move home.

Californians are "drought shaming" neighbors who use the state's dwindling water supply on less-than-essential needs.

Even as the fighting in Gaza rages on, a U.S. subcommittee on defense approved $351 million in funds for Israel's Iron Dome system.

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.