26, with just 2% of that number — some 27,180,519 people — consuming one third of the world's luxury items. The 2% are the backbone of the global luxury goods sales and the target of hundreds of international brand names, the Chinese-language Money …

According to the International Monetary Fund, Brazil is set to clock in as the world's sixth largest economy in 2013. BoF meets shopping mall magnate Carlos Jereissati, a member of the recently launched BoF 500, who is helping international luxury …

It's also the first of three new hotel brands the company, glh. (Global Hotel Company), intends to launch over the next 12 months, it says, an ambitious plan that hopes to put the squeeze on well-established luxury brands like The Four Seasons, the …

SEATTLE, Oct. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Around the world, the retail market rebounded in the first half of the year, with international and luxury brands expanding to new markets and high street properties growing in popularity, according to a …

Gold inched higher on Tuesday as faint glimmers of hope in the U.S. fiscal standoff were not enough to dissipate fears the country could still be pushed towards an unprecedented default. The United States faces an Oct. 17 deadline to raise its $16.7 …

(Kitco News) – Gold prices are moderately lower in early U.S. trading Tuesday, on a lack of fresh, bullish fundamental inputs. The focus of the market place continues on the closure of the U.S. government and lack of progress regarding U.S. lawmakers …

“This is no way to diversify your portfolio,” said Terence Keeley, head of official institutions at $3.8 trillion asset management group Blackrock last week, introducing the debate on gold investment at the London Bullion Market Association's …

Its mission is to centralize social services by providing food, clothing, household items and financial assistance for rent and utilities to qualified Edmond residents – those who live within an Edmond or Arcadia zip code and whose income level …

The service isn't limited to the affluent hills neighborhoods. In middle-class Maxwell Park, just northwest of Mills College, 180 residents have banded together to hire a security guard to patrol their neighborhood for four hours a day, five days a …