There are five potential flashpoints: Syria, the G20 summit, emerging markets, the Federal Reserve meeting to discuss scaling down the US stimulus, and the German election. Any one of them has the potential to damage the global economy. Let's start …

"The global economy will continue to grow at below-trend rate this year, weighed by modest recovery in mature markets and gradual slowdown in major emerging markets," a US economist said in July. With the export becoming the main driver behind the …

The global economy may once again be entering another crisis stage, warns Stephen Roach, a senior fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute of Global Affairs and former chairman for Morgan Stanley Asia. Once again, the Federal Reserve is behind the …

"We're emphasizing Boynton Beach as a globally competitive city," said Scott Kline, the city's new economic development manager, who was hired three months ago. Kline, who has a background in international business, said there are two pieces to making …

Indian Information Technology sector fortunes look strong amid improvement in global economies such as US, UK and Europe along with the huge fall in the home currency. Improvement in the consumer confidence and real economic conditions in the …

India's economy slowed in early summer to its weakest pace since the bottom of the global economic downturn in 2009, government statistics released Friday evening showed. The Central Statistics Office in New Delhi said that the economy grew 4.4 percent …

Signs of strength in the U.S. economy kept the dollar near a four-week high against major currencies on Friday, while oil prices fell on ebbing prospects of an imminent U.S.-led military strike against Syria. ET SPECIAL: Get latest Dollar price updates …

The Thai government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra this month downgraded the country's expected growth rate for 2013, from the previous range of 4.2 to 5.2 percent to 3.8 to 4.3 percent. The slashing of the National Economic and Social …

A Standard & Poor's report predicts that China will overtake the US to become the world's No 1 consumer market within the next five years. Not only that, but the number of online buyers is increasing as well. A new report from Bain & Company said China …