The new year will certainly be characterized by the Federal Reserve finally backing off from its full throttle approach toward the monetary accelerator. However, we also suspect U.S. and global economic growth will quicken more than most anticipate …

BRUSSELS: The world economy should finally overcome its hangover from the global financial crisis this year as growth picks up and house prices rise, but reduced US monetary stimulus will pose a challenge. After months of angst, investors will see how …

Those global trends didn't hold back the United States, and in some cases they were brought about by events in the U.S. economy. But they did contribute to slower growth and add to a widespread feeling of uncertainty. The trend is reversing, but five …

This year looks likely to be a period of normalisation for the world economy. It will be the first time since the onset of the financial crisis that extraordinary stimulus measures will begin to be unwound, starting in the United States as its …

Highlighting the global economic data calendar this week is the U.S. employment report, which is projected to show the world's largest economy gained more jobs in 2013 than at any time in eight years. Across the Atlantic, monetary officials from the …

Those global trends didn't hold back the United States, and in some cases they were brought about by events in the U.S. economy. But they did contribute to slower growth and add to a widespread feeling of uncertainty. The trend is reversing, but five …

Brazil, the world's seventh-largest economy and Latin America's biggest, is offering concessions on infrastructure, natural resources and transport as it tries to reduce the state's burden of spending. Last year, for example, the government auctioned …

Other U.S. economic figures, including construction spending and the Institute for Supply Management's purchasing managers' survey, also pointed to steady gains in the world's largest economy. "We have had a whole string of strong ISM numbers. This is …

Editor's note: Bruce Stokes is director of global economic attitudes at the Pew Research Center. The views expressed are his own. In the Marx Brothers' movie Duck Soup, Chico Marx asked: “Who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?” As 2014 dawns …