NEW DELHI: Almost a month after US Secretary of State John Kerry visited India, Vice President Joe Biden came to tend the relationship, which has flagged both politically and economically in recent months as both countries prepare for elections in 2014.

The Commission's action last week recognizes what Mooresville has already figured out: access to broadband in school isn't just a nice amenity, it's a necessity for our students to be able to compete in the global economy. In our hyperconnected world, …

NEW YORK – The dollar and global equity markets fell on Thursday after mixed corporate earnings and renewed worries about growth in China weighed on investor sentiment, but a 30 percent jump in Facebook Inc shares lifted U.S. stocks from the doldrums.

The ministry said the changes were due mainly to the global economic slowdown and China's slower-than-expected economic growth.To counter the decline, the ministry said it would launch a number of measures next month to strengthen and promote Thai …

SHANGHAI — China has ordered companies in 19 sectors including cement and steel to slash production capacity as growth in the world's second largest economy slows. Beijing's industry ministry ordered around 1,300 firms to shut down outdated facilities …

The remarkable growth of emerging markets in general and the BRICs in particular transformed the global economy in many ways, some wrenching. Commodity prices soared and the cost of manufactures and labour sank. Global poverty rates tumbled.

He called for a trilateral dialogue between India, China and the US to "help grow" the world economy and broaden global prosperity. "And we want it to be constructive. There are three big nations, we are three big nations, China, India and the US, with …

The same is true with emerging markets, the world economy's 21st-century sprinters. After a decade of surging growth, in which they led a global boom and then helped pull the world economy forwards in the face of the financial crisis, the emerging …

And of course, the economy always matters to company performance. But the point here is bigger: it's that in a hyper-globalized world that still hasn't shaken the legacy of the 2008 financial crisis and its follow-up in the euro zone, companies are …