Beijing has embarked on a sweeping restructuring drive and world's second biggest economy has regained some momentum since mid-year after a protracted slowdown. Any positive news will reinforce the government's hand as it pushes ahead with an …

The news: After years of stonewalling, China, the world's largest market for illegal ivory, and 30 other countries have agreed to treat the ivory trade as a serious criminal offense after a Botswana summit. The agreement seeks to eliminate the ivory …

The Asia data suggests the global economy is showing signs of a more solid recovery as 2013 draws to a close. PMI reports from the euro zone and the United States later on Monday are expected to show both regions maintained factory-sector growth in …

Global growth was modest and a tepid expansion in the euro zone masked a growing disparity among its key members last month, data showed on Wednesday. A buoyant Germany was not enough to stop the 17-nation euro zone's private sector losing …

NUSA DUA – Commerce ministers on Saturday approved a trade deal securing a new lease on life for the World Trade Organization which could give a $1 trillion boost to the global economy. For the first time in our history, the WTO has truly delivered.

Ministers from around the world were set on Saturday to seal the first global trade deal in almost two decades in a move hailed as a milestone for the global economy. The deal provisionally agreed in Bali by the vast majority of ministers from the 159 …

Developing nations could save as much as $445 billion a year, and over time the deal could generate bigger benefits for the global economy by increasing trade flows, revenue collection, and boosting investment. The Bali agreement also allows developing …

As a special supplement to its 2014 Global Economic Outlook report, they have selected just two indicators for each economy, that they consider the most critical to building a picture of the whole economy. U.S. (Aneta Markowska). US Nonfarm payroll …

John Mauldin, investor and co-author of the new book “Code Red,” recently sat down with me to discuss monetary policy, a still lagging economy and how he might operate the Federal Reserve if he were in Ben Bernanke's or Janet Yellen's shoes.