Japan’s ultra-easy monetary policy successfully drove down the yen. But a weaker yen is a double-edged sword.
It is too soon to conclude that the crisis in Italy is nearing an end.
Overall business sentiment in Germany improved while retail business sentiment took a dip. Six-month outlook bright.
The program aims to provide heavily subsidized food grains to 800 million Indians, amid worries that it could further fuel inflation.
Jack Lew warns Speaker Boehner that the federal government will hit the $16.7 trillion borrowing limit in October.
What's worse than a Biblical swarm of locusts? Maybe an infestation of a million cockroaches.
But are the taxes motivated by wanting to stabilize the market, or to fill government coffers?
Bo Xilai's trial brings to light how a richer China is spending (or not spending) its new money.
Things are getting better -- significantly better -- says UBS economist Larry Hatheway.
The president is once again calling for foreign companies to be majority-owned by black Zimbabweans.
PE exits from Indian companies are expected to continue in less-than-conducive conditions, leaving the door open for contrarians.
The consensus among decision makers in Jackson Hole, Wyo. still points to a Fed stimulus reduction in September.
Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela have seen their currencies drop sharply in the last six months.
Long periods of low interest rates and loose monetary policy were a necessary risk, but they must eventually end, the IMF chief said.
In the U.S., revised Q2 GDP should indicate steady momentum.
While the U.S. economy has seen considerable growth in both very low-paying jobs and very high-paying jobs, it’s the jobs in the middle of the pay spectrum that are missing.
Egypt’s turmoil is forcing its young people to put jobs, careers and education on hold, and nobody knows how long the interruption will last.
Lawmakers left Washington in gridlock during the August recess. Back home, they will be told anything hurting the recovery is a bad idea.
The little-known Law of Jante may be the reason that Sweden skimmed over the world's recession relatively unscathed, but at what cost?
The increasingly lengthy drama around who will succeed Ben Bernanke as Fed chair has left an opening among commentators seeking clever metaphors to capture the suspense.
The country has 40 individuals with more than $30 million in assets, and that number could grow to 307 in a decade.
The bull market in emerging markets securities has paused or ended, depending on which analyst you follow.
The southern half of East Asia is set to grow economically over the next decade faster than the northern half of East Asia.
Pakistan is struggling to achieve economic stability amid a severe energy crisis, but the World Bank said the country has “many positives.”
The world's most powerful central bankers are in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, this week. Investors will try to read the tea leaves.
Chancellor Merkel is looking forward to a sweet September and a great Oktoberfest: Germany's economy grew 0.9% in 2013; the U.K.'s, 1.5%.
About half of the 200 top MBA students and graduates polled said major banks were aggressively recruiting them.
The halcyon days of U.S. defense spending are over. Proof positive: the F-35 fighter jet program.
U.S. stock markets could open higher on Thursday, ahead of data on jobs, home prices and manufacturing activity.
Hawaii, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., have the largest welfare benefits packages.
