NEW YORK – The dollar recovered from early losses and global equity markets rose on Tuesday after better-than-expected government reports on the U.S. economy and strong consumer confidence data gave investors a reprieve about worries over Federal …

Tweet Fitch Ratings says in its newly published Global Economic Outlook (GEO) that it expects the global economy to strengthen gradually in H213 and 2014-15 as the US gathers steam and the eurozone approaches a cyclical turning point. However, the …

While some areas of the world, such as the European Union (EU), are experiencing stagnant economic growth, other parts of the globe are experiencing stronger growth?but it's coming at a cost. One nation that has embarked on an aggressive policy to …

Much of the world's economic activity takes place in the form of unpaid work by women, from fetching water, carrying firewood and tending animals in subsistence agricultural countries, to caring for children, the sick and elderly in both developing and …

The Coalition has repeatedly attacked Labor for “wasteful spending” and for presiding over deficits in comparison with the surpluses of the Howard government years, often erasing the stimulus spending during the 2008 global financial crisis from its …

Shares in China plunged 5 per cent amid warnings from the government there that it would not "wet nurse" the economy back to health – sending global stock markets headed into further turbulence. The colourful language followed a US central banker, …

Analysts warn that Turkey's decade of unprecedented economic growth could now be at risk, with the world economy facing uncertainty and questions being raised over the sincerity of the Turkish government's pro-market stance. In the face of …

LONDON/NEW YORK, June 21 (Reuters) – Factory output in China weakened to a nine-month low in June while U.S. manufacturing closed out its worst quarter in the last four, suggesting the road to recovery for the world economy remained an uneven one.

For more than four years, central banks around the world — led by the Federal Reserve — have aggressively pumped money into their economies to stimulate faster revival. These infusions are huge. From 2007 to today, the assets of major central banks …