There the glittering world of tuxedos, ball gowns and luxury German automobiles seems almost another planet–or one of the far away locales in Castorf's staging. "Wagner is the German state, and the hill and the baths," a man who gave his name only as …

Allentown Classic Motor Cars, which manages an approximately 80-car collection owned by Nicola Bulgari (a member of the family behind Italian luxury jewelry brand Bulgari), has three woodies on display. "We try to get local cars on exhibit as much as …

The last updates before Friday's all important update on the US job market in July looked pretty darn good. Weekly claims for unemployment insurance fell to their lowest level since before the financial crisis was a twinkle in Ben Bernanke's eye. (They …

Overall, the data allayed fears that the global economy's mid-year lull would deepen, although much still hinges on how many jobs the U.S. economy added in July. That data is due Friday, and economists polled by Reuters expect a 184,000 gain in …

Tokyo – A failure of the economic policies promoted by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe would take a toll on the global economy, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said late Thursday. Abe has advocated aggressive monetary easing steps to …

And changed it has – China is currently the world's second-largest economy, which is precisely why investors worry about how demographic issues there will play out globally. How will China's shrinking birthrate affect global economic growth? Over the …

“The real market in the world today is having English as the universal language of communication, education, and business, if you think about it,” says Rethink Education managing partner and Voxy chairman Rick Segal. “While it's not the largest native …

Passersby walk past an electric stock quotation board outside a brokerage in Tokyo July 5, 2013. — Reuters picTOKYO, Aug 2 — Asian stocks rose, paring the regional benchmark index's first weekly drop since June, as global manufacturing reports beat …

"Our main partners are luxury brands," said Timur Guguberidze, the store's managing director. "But GUM was reconstructed in the Soviet era and we are trying not to forget this period." Symbolic of this desire was the 2008 reopening of the fine foods …