That's what seems to be happening in the global economy right now. After five years of largesse, the Federal Reserve is faced with the daunting task of exiting from the unorthodox stimulus programs that have flooded the world with dollars. As a result …

LONDON (Reuters) – A clutch of surveys this week is likely to show the global economy slowly picking up even as new and old uncertainties combine to test the optimism of businesses and consumers alike. Purchasing managers indexes (PMIs) for the euro …

You can learn a lot about the welfare of the global economy by looking at global bellwether stocks such as FedEx Corporation (NYSE/FDX), MasterCard Incorporated (NYSE/MA), and Visa Inc. (NYSE/V). These are the companies that tend to ebb and flow …

The global economy appears to be moving into a new phase, in which output in advanced economies is firming, albeit probably not as strongly as we would have liked. Developing country growth appears to be slowing, including in the Asia-Pacific region.

It is also, however, just possible that the future in this part of the world may belong to people such as Siapha Kamara and his grassroots team. They are, you might say, transparency revolutionaries, engaged in the hard grind of finding reliable facts …

TORONTO (IDN) – Though the world is increasingly intertwined, the U.S. plays a unique role in the global economy, accounting for 11 percent of global trade and 20 percent of global manufacturing. The country's global financial ties also run deep …

CAGLIARI, Sardinia (Reuters) – 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, at the start of a …

People look at Tokyo's high-rise buildings on Sept. 6, 2013. An Associated Press poll released Sept. 17, 2013, of more than two dozen economists suggests that global growth will remain below full health into 2014. Japan, meanwhile, will grow 2.6 …

"We found a clear rise in suicide after the 2008 global economic crisis, there were about 4,900 excess suicides in the year 2009 alone compared with those expected based on previous trends (2000-07)," David Gunnell of the University of Bristol and his …