Stock markets enjoyed a strong run over the past few days as investors cheered data showing that the U.S. economic recovery is gaining strength. Positive economic figures on the world's largest economy helped ease concerns about the impact on emerging …

The Federal Reserve's policy-making Open-Market Committee met last week and, as many expected, decided to reduce its large monthly purchases of bonds. It pays for these bonds by creating new bank reserves that, in turn, increase the money supply and …

In order to provide a more balanced perspective on the microfinance industry compared to other kinds of financial-services providers, MFIs need to do more to measure and explain their social and economic value. The good news is that industry bodies, …

The global financial system and economy is poised to implode, warns well-known investor Jim Rogers. “We in the West have staggering debts. The U.S. is the largest debtor nation in the history of the world” (cbc, December 3). The artificial “stimulus …

The CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis released its monthly report last week on world trade and world industrial production for the month of October 2013. Here are some of the highlights of that report: 1. World merchandise trade …

NEW YORK – U.S. shares edged higher into record territory on Tuesday, backed by stronger-than-expected manufacturing data that in turn spurred U.S. Treasury yields to 2-1/2 year highs on a belief the economy is on a sustained path of recovery.

MOSCOW — Russia has accused the European Union of violating global free trade measures in its first complaint before the World Trade Organization, the economy ministry said today. The procedure has to do with "a violation by the EU of anti-dumping …

New York — Global economic growth should increase over the next two years with continuing signs of improvement, according to the United Nations World Economic Situation and Prospects 2014 (WESP) report, launched this week. The global economy is …

NEW YORK — Edgar Bronfman Sr., the former Seagram liquor company executive and ex-World Jewish Congress head who helped obtain restitution for Holocaust victims from Swiss banks, has died, the family foundation said. The 84-year-old, a recipient of …