Russian billionaire Vladimir Potanin says he told Gates how the Microsoft co-founder could persuade the wealthiest people on the planet to hand over much of their fortunes to charity under the Giving Pledge program organized by Gates and Warren Buffett.

Forget cone bras and corsets, Madonna has made perhaps the most outrageous fashion statement yet: gold grills. The 55-year-old pop star proudly revealed her done-up teeth Thursday while visiting her Hard Candy Fitness Club in Rome, wearing a lace tank …

With daily video views doubling in the past six months, China's online video space has become another potential gold mine for Hollywood. After all, while China's film sector is often heralded as "the second largest in the world," its Internet market …

Gold prices rallied to a 2½-month high on Friday after a sharp drop in US home sales caused investors to reassess the potential timing of the Federal Reserve's much-anticipated tapering. The gold market has been highly sensitive to shifts in consensus …

Maple Leaf Foods Inc. (MFI) jumped 9 percent after agreeing to sell one of its units to Darling International Inc. Alacer Gold Corp. and Iamgold Corp. rallied at least 4.5 percent as gold traded at its highest in two months. Penn West Petroleum Ltd …

In the Kitco News Gold Survey, out of 36 participants, 23 responded this week. Of those 23 participants, 15 see prices up, while seven see prices down and one sees prices moving sideways or are neutral. Market participants include bullion dealers, …

Analysts said that investors, who have been shackled by concerns of an imminent reduction in the Federal Reserve's massive stimulus, are chasing the market higher after data from China, the U.S. and Europe suggested the global economy was on a firmer …

PARIS — Economic activity in the euro zone this month reached its highest level in more than two years as manufacturing grew, new survey data indicated on Thursday, providing another glimmer that a slow expansion might finally be under way.

The number of people over 60 years old has doubled in the past 30 years and is expected to grow at the same pace by 2050. Increasing pension payments at a time of massive layoffs could result in an unsupportable burden for the world's economies.