ECONOMY & MARKETS

RealtyTrac, in its report released Monday, said that foreclosure filings were down 53 percent from their peak in 2010.

In it's latest report, The World Bank has a bullish forecast for global economic growth, but developing country concerns remain.

Concerning the journey to U.S. economic healing, we're not half-way home; but the nation is progressing.

Pew Research explains why the hourly pay gap between men and women has narrowed and yet persisted in the last 30 years.

Economic scholars study who really benefits the most from minimum wage increases.

The projected growth of the U.S. energy sector has to be seen to be believed, so see it here.

Deutsche said the alleged manipulations by traders affected several major currencies in the $5.3 trillion-a-day forex market.

Although it has an uber-liberal government, progressive social laws and a stable economy, when Uruguay rumbles, the whole continent feels it.

The EU's trade balance slightly declined in November on a monthly basis, while the euro zone trade surplus topped consensus estimates.

The World Bank released its 2014 Global Economics Prospects report on Tuesday. Here are the highlights.

At Retail’s BIG Show in New York, smaller retailers expressed worry over how they could compete with Amazon’s ambitious agenda.

As it turns out, the mass flight of citizens feared by the Castro government never happened. (Or so the government says.)

This nation does not make headlines too often. But it should, and there's a very good reason.

Non-Chinese banks urged by Beijing to set up shop in Shanghai’s free-trade zone aren't happy with the regulatory limbo.

The latest retail report shows a U.S. economy continuing to grow faster than expected.

Gold rose to $1,250 per ounce on Monday, up $50 from the previous week’s trading ranges, as hedge funds pivoted with interest to the metal.

Ongoing litigation uncertainty, however, makes analysts wary of excessive optimism.

Here are economists' estimates for China's Q4 GDP, Dec. factory production, FX reserves, bank lending, FAI and retail sales.

Last year was rough for Indonesia, with fuel-price hikes and rising inflation, but things are expected to change this year.

A controversial soda tax was just introduced in Mexico, and now there's an unintended consequence.

A report surveyed the state of the global retail industry, as retail executives gathered at the NRF's Big Show industry conference in New York.

South Korea says it will push for a South Korea-China free trade agreement over joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) this year.

One in 200 infections leads to irreversible paralysis, usually in the legs, according to the World Health Organization.

An executive at consulting firm McKinsey & Company has drawn up a list of 10 things that could dominate the Year of the Wooden Horse.

Frozen or not, Niagara Falls captured people's imagination this past week. But can it capture their tourism dollars too?

Samsung's latest factory site was met with conflict on Thursday.

Venezuela's economy suffered in 2013 -- and 2014, the first full year under President Nicolás Maduro, does not look much better.

The Canadian unemployment rate surpassed the American rate in December for the first time since the financial crisis thanks to chilling temperatures and massive layoffs.

A companion question: Were U.S. home prices buoyed artificially by business investors in the market for quick profits?