ECONOMY & MARKETS

Japan doesn’t want to lift trade barriers. U.S. liberals want Obama to stick to his past pledges on fast-track authority.

While most industries in Myanmar are expanding, its fish exports sector is contracting.

More than 230 million people were living outside the countries of their birth in 2013. Many of them sent money home.

Mazur is an outspoken critic of the way governments and banks combat money laundering, the drug cartels' lifeblood.

Latin America is growing, but it still has a long way to go to ensure all its citizens benefit equally.

The recovered documents and information are said to add up to 32 gigabytes of data and have been preserved in a safe place.

Keith Bliss of Cuttone & Co. discusses “the real question” analysts will ask from Macy’s earnings in 2014.

Dilma Rousseff and José Manuel Barroso discussed free trade agreement and the end of U.S. surveillance.

Yale University economics professor Robert Shiller said an annual fall in home prices is a potential threat in 2014, if several risks converge.

And here's how much they rose in 20 big cities. The top gainers may surprise you.

That said, the trajectory of same-store sales was discouraging: a 10% gain in November, a 2% loss in December and a 4% loss in January.

The European Commission has raised its EU and eurozone GDP forecasts, but austerity measures are nowhere near over.

And you'll never guess where the biggest overvaluation exists, which ran current account deficits of 12 percent to 40 percent of GDP.

Republicans will press criticism of the ambitious tax evasion crackdown during 2014 elections.

Now that the drug lord Guzman is behind bars, the government predicts an increase in tourism and more interest from international investors.

In 2013, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa announced a plan to create a development bank, but progress has been slow.

Foreign trade and investments in the factory and construction sectors aided growth in the fourth quarter.

UBS analysts warn that Ukraine's economy is a high risk, after weeks of unrest and amid uncertainty regarding political and economic policy.

Wage affects tribal government workers. The tribe’s private sector corporation (and federal contractor) currently starts employees at $9.36 per hour.

Agnico-Eagle Mines’ Meadowbank gold mine saw record production in 2013.

Markets in Egypt aren’t heavily impacted by the mass government resignations announced on Monday.

The Group of 20, or G20, accounts for about 85 percent of the global economy.

The Ifo index is based on about 7,000 monthly surveys of companies in manufacturing, construction, wholesaling and retailing sectors.

Home price rises eased for the first time in 14 months as the government's campaign to rein in property risk may be working.

Will Brazil and Mexico's stock markets sink or swim in 2014? Schwab's international market analyst Michelle Gibley weighs in.

Good news for very large container ships: Contractors and authorities have reached a deal to resume work on the stalled project.

U.S. Census data reveals where inequality is the most extreme. The data may surprise you.

The closures jeopardize one region's leading industry and the livelihood of its workers.

Macro targets and local-government debt are likely to top the agenda when China’s top legislative body meets March 5.