NEW YORK – Global equity markets and crude oil rose on Monday as investors snapped up riskier assets at the start of a new quarter after data showed U.S. Manufacturing expanded in June, while Japanese and European data pointed to stabilizing …

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (CNN) — With hundreds wearing white shirts and hats bearing President Barack Obama's face, Tanzanians said "karibu," or "welcome," to him on Monday as they lined a street temporarily renamed Obama Avenue. Obama is in Africa …

Margaret Canning – 02 July 2013. NORTHERN Ireland's economy is showing signs of improvement but risks remain in the global economy, according to a survey of nearly 450 businesses. Also in this Section. Merger creates world's biggest publishing firm …

Oil demand growth for 2013 so far has been suppressed by global economic sluggishness. In the second half of the year, slightly higher demand is expected primarily due to the seasonal structural adjustments and recovery in parts of the world.

Global stocks mostly rose Monday as long-awaited signs of improvement in Japan's economy helped investors shrug off a weakening in China's manufacturing sector. The Bank of Japan's closely-watched quarterly "tankan" survey for June showed that the …

The number of deals in the first half of this year was even lower than that same period in 2009, when the world was still reeling from the financial crisis. Continuing worries about the global economy make corporations less than confident in making …

We all know how the global economic crisis began. The banks over-lent to the housing market. The subsequent burst of the housing bubble in the United States caused banks to fail, because banking had gone global and the big banks held one another's bad …

And now the darlings of the world economy, emerging markets, have proved unable to reverse their own slowdowns. According to the IMF, China's annual GDP growth has slowed to 8%, from 10% in 2010; over the same period, India's growth rate slowed …

The demand for energy is global and growing rapidly. Some nations, such as China and India, are moving aggressively to catch up with the economies of more developed countries; and in order to do that, they need to bring on line massive amounts of …