During the question and answer period of his presentation, Macklem also touched on the impact the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing program has on the world economy. Although the Federal Reserve is cutting back its stimulus spending, it has pumped …

Like a captain turning a heavy ship in choppy seas, its leaders are trying to steer the world's second-largest economy away from reliance on investment and toward being a consumer society. Growth has marched steadily downward over the past two years as …

While many financial commentators were optimistic about the global economy coming into this year, major risks are revealing themselves, says Jay Pelosky, principal of J2Z Advisory, an investment consulting firm. Writing in The Wall Street Journal, he …

Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) — Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Elizabeth C. Economy discusses the Chinese economy and pollution problem on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg Surveillance." Holland & Co. Founder and Chairman Michael Holland …

Wall Street rose firmly overnight when the world's largest economy recorded a drop in the latest weekly jobless claims (down by 20,000). That's supposed to be good news ahead of this weekend's unemployment report. Here's a question though: why did the …

Seven months ago, Omar Allam was looking to make a career change, leaving his position with the Canadian government. The Beaverbrook resident logged on to LinkedIn, a social media forum for businesses, to do some research and stumbled across an …

The paper, by researchers at the University of Southampton, modeled the economic effects of future sea level rise, using various projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of future carbon emissions and global warming, along …

LONDON Feb 9 (Reuters) – The euro zone and its constituent parts will report fourth quarter economic growth numbers at the end of the week, offering policy makers at the European Central Bank a needed snapshot of the bloc's underlying strength.

Calvert Investments: Cathy Roy, chief investment officer, fixed income, Natalie Trunow, chief investment officer, equities, and Steve Van Order, fixed-income strategist met to discuss the key investment themes they see shaping the markets in 2014.