Gains in these business units were offset by volume declines in Home Care, primarily driven by lower shipments of Clorox(R) disinfecting wipes due to increased competitive activity. Sales outpaced volume primarily due to the benefits of price increases …

Within the euro zone troubled economies cannot devalue to regain competitiveness or loosen monetary policy to suit their needs. Instead they must adjust by painfully reducing wages and prices relative to those of others. Such "internal devaluation" can …

12.27 Terry Scuoler, chief executive of the manufacturers' organisation EEF, says that given the "numerous reviews into the energy market and competition that have taken place over the years, and their subsequent failure to deliver any real change …

For any devaluation to succeed, it has to be strategic and combined with supporting policies, which hold inflation at levels that will not undermine the currency's competitive value. It must be applied in the shortest possible time and to the full …

WASHINGTON (VOR)— According to the latest Forbes list of the world's richest, more and more non-Westerners are making it into the most elite bracket: the billionaires. For years, the U.S., Germany and Japan were the clear leaders in the ability of …

Politico's Alex Burns and Maggie Haberman have designated 2013 as “Year of the Liberal Billionaire,” as progressive titans like Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer unload their money bags on TV ads in off-year elections. “Their arrival on the political …

EU Trade Deal: Canada sells out to European billionaires. (MSN) — A European Union analysis of the just-completed trade agreement with Canada suggests the EU gained more than it expected — and might have settled for less had Ottawa pushed harder.

It simply isn't productive to have billionaires using the Giving Pledge as a claim to moral superiority over each other. If Icahn genuinely was interested in persuading Gross to join, why not call him on the phone or send him a nice note rather than …

A third of China's 100 richest billionaires have more than one child, with eight having managed to sneak in under the net with broods of three or four. Only one fifth, 21 out of 100, have stuck to the one child rule according to Forbes, while nearly a …