ECONOMY & MARKETS

The World Meteorological Organization put high odds on an El Niño event this fall.

Policymakers have become increasingly concerned about the rapid rise in house prices, which are growing at around 10 percent annually.

The world's largest furniture maker said that it does not plan to raise in-store prices to accommodate the hike in wages.

A Commerce Department report had many wondering whether the U.S. is headed back to the worst economic times since the Great Depression.

South Africa's economy and mining companies could take months to recover from the historic strike.

A sobering new study shows just how bad the postrecession recovery process has been for most Americans.

Revenues also jumped, but not as much, according to the Ernst & Young report.

The U.S. economy performed at its weakest in almost five years.

Former President Yanukovych sparked unrest when he failed to sign the deal last fall, in favor of a fateful agreement with Russia.

"Ni hao, y'all." Small towns in the U.S. are bidding for Chinese projects.

The "Risky Business" climate report unveiled Tuesday underscores the challenges that U.S. oil and gas firms face from global warming.

In Dubai, artificial lagoons as clear as swimming pools are a step up from the manmade lake, without nature's pesky variations.

An income inequality report underscores little progress in offering home-grown job opportunities for hundreds of millions.

Albania's once-dwindling oil sector is seeing a drilling renaissance thanks to smaller foreign firms lured by the prospects of significant deposits.

KKR expands its wind energy portfolio with big stake in Spain's trouble Acciona, which lost big money when Spanish subsidies ended.

The runoff between incumbent Cochran and tea party-backed McDaniel has been described as a battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party.

Tensions keep mounting around the Export-Import Bank of the United States, with four officials accused of accepting gifts in exchange for favors.

New York ex-Mayor Michael Bloomberg, hedge-fund billionaire Tom Steyer and former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson funded the report.

Speaking to British lawmakers, Carney said that data on British wages had come in softer than expected.

India is expanding a nuclear plant that could produce enough weapons-grade uranium to make five atom bombs a year, according to reports.

Without Congress, Obama can do little to extend the meager family-leave benefits the United States offers it workers.

Oil and gas drillers are wary of the drug-related violence in northern Mexico that's threatening to stymie the country's shale oil and gas development.

Chinese manufacturing rose this month to a seven-month high.

Nearly one-third of California is experiencing "exceptional" drought levels as the state withers under its highest temperatures on record.

India's investigation of black money in secretive Swiss banks was triggered by a list of accounts at HSBC leaked by a whisteblower.

It was the first time since December that the PMI was in growth territory, and the highest reading since November.

Greek authorities make biggest heroin seizure in Europe.

Border Patrol is detaining 700 migrants a day.

The need for crowd control and to protect corporate sponsors is having mixed effects on businesses in and around the World Cup.