China's middle class is projected to grow to a massive size over the next few years, and as its citizens become more affluent the more goods and products they will want to consume. This has already translated into more cars on the road, and the country …

Though Obry concedes that Motion Products provides mechanical work for affluent people across the globe, he is uncomfortable with the term “super-rich” and says the majority of his clients are hard-working people who run successful companies and love …

With the deadline for extending the U.S. debt ceiling a day away and still no deal in sight, what would a failure to raise the Treasury Department's $16.7 trillion borrowing limit mean for gold prices? While prices would spike higher in the short-term …

Gold opens the clip with some poetry about "ballin'" and "clubbing'" before the hunger-grumps set in and she vandalizes a park trash can. That's when she smells what's cooking over at Chinese Food, a Chinese food restaurant across the street. She …

Those countries become isolated from the rest of the Internet economy… For many of these countries, if this payment system works, if the U.S. and Congress can support and tolerate a reputable, well-paid industry, this will be a big connector to the …

As part of a novel approach to tracking the global economy from the bottom up, the company has a daily feed of onion prices from stores around India. More than 700 people in cities around the globe use a mobile app to log the prices of key products in …

Given the dire consequences of a U.S. default on the global economy, it appears that global investors are so far assigning a small probability of such an event (judging by the behavior of U.S. Treasury yields and U.S. Sovereign CDS spreads). Credit …

Predictions about the potential effects on the global economy of a U.S. default have verged on the apocalyptic. This weekend, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim characterized the possibility as "disastrous" for both the developing world and developed …

By KEN SWEET and MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Associated Press | 1 minute ago in Technology. Twitter will be coming off its biggest quarterly loss in the past three years when the online messaging service brings its IPO to the New York Stock Exchange later this …