Buying pre-owned items online has also become popular with homegrown online shopping portals like www.sulit.com.ph and www.ayos.com.ph. Omni-channel … Younger, male and affluent shoppers are most likely to showroom. Retailers must better …

WASHINGTON: Either by gross underestimation or strategic design, stores across the United States quickly ran out of the gold-toned iPhone 5s hours after the model's release on Friday, sparking off a frenzy that may well translate into rich pickings in …

With her long, wavy red hair, purple shells and green fish tail, Ariel made young girls dream of being "The Little Mermaid." But the fairytale turns out to be far from reality. Being a mermaid in South Florida actually takes a lot of work. Fort …

On the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, gold futures for December delivery tumbled 2.7% on Friday to settle the week at USD1,332.50 a troy ounce. Gold futures fell by as much as 3.2% earlier in the session to hit a daily low of USD1 …

Gold prices soared this week after the Federal Reserve concluded a two-day monetary policy meeting and made no changes to its USD85 billion bond-buying program, much to the surprise of many. Many market participants were expecting the U.S. central …

You can learn a lot about the welfare of the global economy by looking at global bellwether stocks such as FedEx Corporation (NYSE/FDX), MasterCard Incorporated (NYSE/MA), and Visa Inc. (NYSE/V). These are the companies that tend to ebb and flow …

It is also, however, just possible that the future in this part of the world may belong to people such as Siapha Kamara and his grassroots team. They are, you might say, transparency revolutionaries, engaged in the hard grind of finding reliable facts …

The global economy appears to be moving into a new phase, in which output in advanced economies is firming, albeit probably not as strongly as we would have liked. Developing country growth appears to be slowing, including in the Asia-Pacific region.

TORONTO (IDN) – Though the world is increasingly intertwined, the U.S. plays a unique role in the global economy, accounting for 11 percent of global trade and 20 percent of global manufacturing. The country's global financial ties also run deep …