ECONOMY & MARKETS

Shoppers seemed to hold back as early Black Friday crowds were thin despite a wide range of deals being offered by retailers.

American Express decided to discontinue its incentives for Small Business Saturday with this year's sales expected to again top $14 billion.

The dam’s collapse on Nov. 5 led to at least 13 deaths, 11 people missing and released an estimated “20,000 Olympic swimming pools of toxic mud,” according to the U.N.

The Russian state monopoly, which supplies a third of Europe's gas, is accused of anticompetitive practices.

Entrepreneurs are being forced to turn to high-interest sources as larger banks refuse them loans.

As U.S. college students amass record levels of debt, now could be the time for income-share agreements to take hold as an alternative to private student loans.

The auction is the latest in a series of conversations around the former chairman of China's Communist Party.

Hervé Falciani, a former HSBC employee who leaked the information of over 130,000 clients, has been sentenced to five years in prison.

Despite the continuing rise of online commerce, big deals drew hordes to brick-and-mortar retail stores across the U.S.

Both the real Christmas tree and the fake Christmas tree have their pros and cons.

Although a rise in consumer spending helped offset the trade deficit, growth slowed to 0.5 percent in the quarter ending Sept. 30.

Despite Japan's unemployment rate dipping to a two-decade low, drops in consumer spending and incomes kept inflation way below its 2 percent target.

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the action was taken because Turkey has been reluctant to share information about its citizens involved in terrroist activity.

The proposed goods and services tax, or GST, billed as India's biggest tax reform, has been stalled for months.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev ordered his government to draw up measures that would include freezing some joint investment projects and restricting food imports from Turkey.

Four Northern Ireland-based partners of the global auditing firm allegedly cheated on accounting for losses on property investments. One suspect is an advocate of lower taxes.

A senior European diplomat told Reuters this week that Western leaders at the G20 in Antalya agreed on the margins of the meeting to extend the sanctions.

Riyadh may detail a strategy to cope with an era of cheap oil as soon as next month, when the finance ministry presents the 2016 budget plan.

Asia's third-fastest growing economy was dragged by industry and agriculture and the first drop in remittances from overseas Filipinos in years.

Vice President Jojo Binay, Sen. Grace Poe and former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas are vying to succeed President Benigno Aquino III in May's election.

U.S. stock indexes rose slightly ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.

Nearly half of all holiday shopping is expected to take place online. Here are four ways to stay safe from cybercrime.

In a forum of presidential candidates, Sen. Grace Poe backed the government on taking China to court over the South China Sea dispute.

Affluent Chinese are increasingly traveling to the United States for medical care, prompted by mistrust of their home country's overcrowded, understaffed system.

The government's pay hike is part of a larger stimulus plan designed to lift demand.

In the wake of Turkish forces downing a Russian warplane, Russia's tourism agency has called for travel packages to Turkey to be suspended.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker warns that allowing the Schengen system to erode would have consequences for other EU projects, including the euro currency.

The European Central Bank is concerned about the adverse effects a U.S. Federal Reserve rate increase and China's continuing slowdown could have on the eurozone.

Beijing is also looking to focus on expanding trade with Central and Eastern European countries, according to Premier Li Keqiang.