The momentum in global economic growth achieved this year will continue into 2014, with emerging markets expected to drive premium growth and alternative capital remaining focused on transparent, well-modelled natural catastrophe business, notes …

Officials from Iran made a deal with six countries (the US, Russia, China, England, France, and Germany)—in exchange for suspending the world's sanctions on Iran, Iran will curb its nuclear weapons program. Though it's only a six-month interim …

US markets were closed by the time the formal notices started going out late on Monday night ordering government agencies to suspend their activities – the so-called shutdown. Government shutdown, in American politics, refers to a temporary halt in …

"Your education today is your economy tomorrow," says Andreas Schleicher from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, who has become one of the world's most influential figures in education. And next week, the state of today's …

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim sits down with Sara Murray at WSJ's CEO Council to discuss global growth, how climate change worsens natural disasters, and economic opportunities for women. It's not an easy time to look into the economic crystal ball.

Even slower growth is expected in China as the country “confronts a sluggish world economy, increasingly difficult demographic challenges impacting labor supply, and the need to rebalance the sources of growth from exports and fixed asset investment to …

Nomura's forecasts for next year marked an "important qualitative change" from the approach going into both 2012 and 2013, when investors could make the most of "end-of-the-world risk premiums" – as long as the global economy did not implode.

Zeti: Growth prospects for world economy to remain modest (Update). KUALA LUMPUR: Growth prospects for the global economy is expected to remain modest for an extended time, says Bank Negara Malaysia Governor Tan Sri Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz. With the …

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