The most recent world economic data show a disturbing ongoing tendency towards stagnation or even mild recession and deflation. Trade is not picking up to any substantial extent except in northern Europe and China. One result of this is a growing …

"This is remarkable, as the global economy grew by 3.5 percent," it said in a statement. "This development signals a shift towards less fossil-fuel-intensive activities, more use of renewable energy and increased energy saving." The figures were …

Ramnarine: We are the second country in the world to generate all its electricity from natural gas. We like to think of ourselves as the world's first natural gas economy. The Qataris may want to disagree, but while Qatar produces a lot of natural gas …

A report released by Maplecroft, a risk-analysis firm based in the U.K., shows that regions that will account for nearly a third of global economic output in the next 12 years are also extremely vulnerable to damages from climate change, CNN reports …

Rupert Murdoch says Australia needs to embrace high immigration to add dynamism to the economy, enhance its human capital and create strong bonds with the rest of the world. The News Corp chairman decried a "self-defeating" immigration debate in the …

Citi's latest 48-page "Global Economic Outlook and Strategy" report is out, providing commentary and forecasts on where the bank thinks the world's major economies are headed. Dogged by fiscal "episodic uncertainty," the euro area and the U.S. face …

For anyone concerned about whether the U.S. stock market can keep racking up big gains from puny growth, the good news is that the global economy finally is revving up. Alas, the bad news may also be that the global economy finally is revving up …

They follow a month in which a political standoff in Washington over the U.S. debt ceiling and the sixth straight cut in IMF global economic forecasts had raised fresh concerns about the health of the global economy. "Overall, the data is positive for …

The study, conducted by the World Bank and the United Nation's Office of Drugs and Crimeand based on interviews with former pirates, government officials, bankers and others countering piracy, estimates that piracy costs the global economy $18 billion …