IT HAS been a consistent theme of this blog in recent months that global growth has been slowing, a fact some investors may have missed in the good news about American GDP. The latest confirmation came from the World Trade Organisation, which cut its …

G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors has chalked out a strong 10-point agenda to revive global economy, ensure exchange of information on tax matters and obtain orderly roll back of the monetary stimuluses by the big economies.

It wouldn't be fair to call ace money manager James Rickards an optimist about the global economy. "We are in a depression. This is a global depression," the author of "The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System" told …

Wall Street limped into the close again Tuesday as U.S. airstrikes in Syria and bleak European manufacturing data triggered a sell-off of global equities. After the U.S. Treasury Department imposed new rules intended to stifle tax inversion-motivated …

Macro Horizons covers the main macroeconomic and policy news events affecting foreign-exchange, fixed income and equity markets around the world, as selected by editors in New York, London and Hong Kong. WRAP: Data continue to show the disparate …

As a result, the manager (pictured) of the £4.1 billion fund is running a high allocation to developed market stocks and is steering clear of areas of the market that are exposed to China. This positioning is supported by Harries' positive view on the …

Cairns (Australia) (AFP) – Finance chiefs from G20 nations held talks Saturday, confident they can "change the destiny of the global economy" despite rising world political tensions and mounting fears of financial instability. The meeting in Cairns …

(Updates with links to graphics). * Chinese factory activity pick-up is modest but unexpected. * Euro zone business growth slows more than thought. * More monetary policy action expected in Frankfurt, Beijing. By Jonathan Cable and Jake Spring.

Photo courtesy of CGI2014: From Left to right: Judith Rodin, of the Rockefeller Foundation moderated a discussion with Henry Paulson, of the Paulson Institute and the Prime Minister of Denmark, Helle Thorning-Schmidt on climate change the global …