NEW YORK – The world economy has experienced another year of subdued growth, having failed to meet even the most modest projections for 2013. Most developed economies continued trudging along toward recovery, struggling to identify and implement …

A fervor to punish banks for the financial crisis of 2008 could end up threatening the United States' position in the world economy, according to noted banking analyst Richard X Bove. Bove, a Tampa-based equity research analyst at Rafferty Capital …

The gap between demand and supply has widened as economies across the world begin seeing growth accelerate. Unlike other precious metals, such as gold, platinum prices are helped by stronger economies. Speculators have begun to notice the deficit, …

SINGAPORE/NEW YORK, Dec 26 (Reuters) – Shanghai copper futures rose to four-month highs and U.S. prices extended recent gains on Thursday on growing confidence about the global economy, year-end covering and the prospect of purchases from …

Possibly inspired by Game of Thrones, famous and affluent Californians have made a moat the latest “must-have” home specification, according to the LA Times. Pictured above, for example, Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady's enormous Brentwood … Estates …

Rationing already occurs in the U.S., as the more affluent typically receive better care because they can afford it, and further rationing could occur if employers continue to reduce benefits and increase employee cost-sharing. To avoid the …

The explosion on Thursday took place on Mostafa Nahas Street in Nasr City, an affluent suburb of eastern Cairo. The street is close to an Al-Azhar University building, the headquarters of the National Security apparatus, and a police station. … The …

That is, as more affluent populations make marginal but hopeful moves toward reducing the animal-based excesses of the standard western diet, an aspiring middle class appears poised as never before to embrace it in all its carnivorous entirety. In 2013 …

I tried to hide my anxiety but my new roommates, Earl Brown and Arthur Bentley, from Pennsylvania readily felt how uncomfortable I was and sought to allay my concerns. I asked a thousand questions that I repeated a thousand times, about food, shelter …