Iraq will be foremost in investors' minds in the coming week as oil price risk has returned to markets, complicating the task for central banks whose policies are beginning to diverge for the first time since the global financial crisis. Oil prices …

But, even as Brazil steps into the international spotlight, it maintains considerable barriers to the global economy, damaging its prospects for future growth and prosperity. In a world that is constantly becoming more interconnected, Brazil risks …

For advanced economies that have deployed unconventional monetary policy, the question is when and how to unwind the extraordinary stimulus smoothly, considering also the possible repercussions for the rest of the world (spillovers) and the possible …

The internationally acclaimed French economist Thomas Piketty talks to BBC correspondent Simon Jack in front of a live audience at the Université Paris-Dauphine. His best-selling book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, rocked the economic world with …

Russia's most important role in the global economy is that of a colossal producer of oil and gas. Russia is the world's number-one exporter of natural gas and the number-two exporter of oil, and foreign firms have pushed hard for access to these reserves.

Doha Bank Group CEO Dr R Seetharaman recently participated in a panel discussion at the International Arab Banking Summit 2014 in Paris, which was themed “Transitions in world economy”. Seetharaman highlighted the major developments impacting …

Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen cited reasons for optimism about the world's biggest economy last week, including household spending and a better jobs market. Economists generally agree that the effects of unusually bad winter weather will fade …

Many of the companies and technologies that are now part of our every day conversations–Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc., the cloud, smartphones, Big Data, LinkedIn Inc., 4G, Skype–were not mentioned in the connected global economy he wrote about only six …

According to a new report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), cybercrime costs the global economy almost US$445 billion per year, putting it in the ranks of drug trafficking in terms of economic harm. Story continues below.