New single-family home sales rose at their fastest pace in five months in September, a government report showed on Wednesday, but sustained price declines indicated the housing market is far from recovery.
Police arrested at least 85 people and cleared a camp used by anti-Wall Street protesters near the Oakland, California, city hall early on Tuesday, a city spokeswoman said.
Police and protesters scuffled in the streets of Oakland on Tuesday as more than 1,000 people marched on city hall to voice anger over scores of arrests at an Occupy Wall Street camp.
After months of dire predictions for the economy, including warnings of a new recession, forecasters are singing a different tune.
Mauritania's current economic growth rate is not high enough to significantly dent poverty and the country will next year face the twin challenge of drought and uncertainty over mining revenues, the International Monetary Fund said.
South Africa will see its budget deficit widen a touch this year to support a weak recovery, but aims to constrain expenditure and keep debt in check and over the following three years.
An Egyptian court ruled on Tuesday that Egyptians living abroad should be allowed to vote at embassies in upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections, a judicial source said.
The total of U.S. state debt, including pension liabilities, could surpasses $4 trillion, with California owing the most and Vermont owing the least, according to an analysis released on Monday.
President Barack Obama will tout newly unveiled measures on Monday aimed at aiding struggling homeowners and easing the U.S. housing crisis on the first leg of a campaign-style swing through western states crucial to his re-election in 2012.
Fernandez trounced her opponents, gaining almost 54 percent of the electorate – her closest challenger, Socialist Hermes Binner polled only 17 percent.
The euro zone's private sector tipped further into decline in October, according to business surveys on Monday that showed the bloc's economy is in serious danger of lurching from stagnation into outright recession.
Argentina's center-leftist president, Cristina Fernandez, won a landslide re-election victory Sunday as voters credited her unconventional policies for a long economic boom.
Argentina's fiery center-leftist president, Cristina Fernandez, swept to a landslide re-election victory Sunday, crowning a comeback that seemed unthinkable for much of her turbulent first term.
The rise of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement is the Republican Party's worst nightmare. It’s an objective data point that no amount of liberal-bashing, Obama-bashing or jingoist appeal to patriotism can blot out: The U.S. economic system of corporate capitalism might need economic and fiscal reforms.
European Union leaders piled pressure on Italy on Sunday to speed up economic reforms to avoid a Greece-style meltdown as they began a crucial two-leg summit called to rescue the euro zone from a deepening sovereign debt crisis.
Unemployment rates fell in California with construction, government, transportation and other once-troubling sectors showing signs of improvement.
The Nevada Republican Party pushed the date of its presidential nominating caucus back to February 4, bowing to pressure not to undermine the New Hampshire primary that has traditionally been one of the first key contests for presidential contenders.
To paraphrase singer Britney Spears, Oops, she did it again. In this case, she is conservative commentator/columnist Ann Coulter, who says the Occupy Wall Street protest movement is a mob and similar to mob uprisings.
Williston, N.D., is booming. And it's all because of the oil. People are moving there in en masse. It is probably the one place in the nation where there are not enough empty homes to meet the new residents' demands. North Dakota has the lowest unemployment rate of the 50 states at 3.5 percent, and it can tout the fact that workers' salaries have doubled and tripled recently.
The popular uprisings sweeping the Arab world this year have slowed economies across the region, and now jobs, better governance, and investment are needed, speakers at the World Economic Forum in Jordan said Saturday.
Prospects for corporate earnings are appearing comparatively dimmer in the coming quarters -- even though reports so far this quarter have been looking relatively bright.
More than once, President Barack Obama has written personal checks to struggling Americans, he told a Washington Post reporter, in an admission that is bound to be controversial.
