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SINGAPORE: London copper eased on Monday, with some investors shunning risk as a US government shutdown seemed increasingly likely, although the metal was on track for its biggest quarterly gain since March 2012 due to steadying global growth.

Global Central Bankers admitted that their economic dashboards were not working; and that there was a dangerous monetary policy vacuum developing. Into this vacuum jumped the figure of Sarah Bloom Raskin; who suggested that extreme income …

NEW YORK – Global equity markets fell and the dollar hit a 7-1/2-month low against the safe-haven Swiss franc on Friday as the prospect of a shutdown of U.S. government operations next week and a possible debt default several weeks later unsettled …

The demand for halal food – food prepared according to the dietary laws based on the Holy Qu'ran – has soared by 12.6 percent between 2004 and 2010 despite the global economic crisis, and 'halal economy' seems to be slowly becoming a significant …

Co-hosted by Qatar Central Bank, the event will bring together some of the world's leading financial practitioners with a cross-section of Qatar's most prominent financiers and policy-makers, to tackle some of the key issues facing the global economy …

MANILA, Philippines – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said it is ready to counter any impact of the still gloomy global outlook on the Philippine economy. “Amid downside risks to global economic prospects on the horizon, contingency measures are …

LONDON (Reuters) – Yet another budget showdown in Washington and yet another government crisis in Italy herald more turbulence for a global economy growing well below trend. On top of these recurrent pitfalls, banks and households in Europe are still …

By Philip Pullella, Reuters. CAGLIARI, Sardinia — Pope Francis made one of his strongest attacks on the global economic system on Sunday, saying it could no longer be based on a "god called money" and urged the unemployed to fight for work. Francis …