ECONOMY & MARKETS

President Ma Ying-jeou has been trying to improve relations with China for his whole term, but some Taiwanese fear a sellout to Beijing.

More tourists visit Egypt from Russia than from any other nation. So the cancellation of Russian flights to Egypt could hit its economy hard.

In an economy full of low-wage work, the relative lack of construction jobs is especially painful.

October’s better-than-expected gain of 271,000 jobs marks the best showing of 2015 and the lowest unemployment level since March 2008.

China is not among the 12 Pacific-Rim countries which last month agreed to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact.

A report on the employment situation in the U.S., due Friday, is widely expected to further bolster arguments for a historic rate hike by the Federal Reserve in December.

Imposing U.S. copyright laws on other countries through the Trans-Pacific Partnership would stifle Internet freedom and innovation, rights groups say.

“I don’t think the public understands what they were signing up for, and the government didn’t either,” said a director for a political risk consultancy.

In the Central American country, U.S. trade boosters have failed to deliver on promises to lift labor standards.

"Oh, well, I shall just continue to sunbathe by [the] pool while young men bring me drinks,” said a British vacationer among 20,000 stranded in Egypt since the crash of a Russian airliner.

Top insurance carriers are hiring companies that can predict the fallout from a data breach, just like they do with natural disasters.

Labor advocates and Democrats say they do not think the labor standards in the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal will do enough to protect workers in countries known for human rights violations.

The newly released text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership shows the Obama administration will make it harder for companies to sue governments under trade deals.

The White House Thursday released the full text of the controversial TPP agreement, a 12-country deal that slashes tariffs.

Low oil prices and a weak euro are likely to boost growth in the 19-nation eurozone this year, before their fading impact slows growth in 2016, the European Commission said.

While men's salaries kept increasing until the age of 50 to 55, the report showed women's wages hit a plateau between 35 to 40 years old.

A leader of the ruling party says the opposition leader has the people's support.

Investors will keep a close eye on Thursday's event at the New York Fed, where many top policy makers -- including IMF Chief Christine Lagarde -- are scheduled to speak.

Five factors are at play in Bitcoin's double-digit gains against the dollar, but enthusiasts are troubled by one of them.

An overcrowded plane, paired with lax safety standards, likely contributed to the crash of a Soviet-era plane in South Sudan Wednesday.

Activists have unveiled a well-funded, heavily endorsed pot legalization initiative. Will it be enough to unify California's fractured marijuana movement?

The Thai government has reversed its position against farmer subsidies as the country's rural economy sputters from falling commodity prices and exports.

The jury began deliberating in a landmark trial in Manhattan, in a case that could set a precedent for other high-profile Libor-rigging scandals.

The first-of-its-kind hearing will focus on the U.S. Federal Reserve's plans for regulating the nation's banks and overseeing its financial system.

A number of petitions are circulating online as employees of big-name stores oppose what has come to be known as the “Black Friday Creep.”

The Buckeye State's Tuesday vote on a plan that would legalize marijuana could signal a big change in how the marijuana industry operates across the U.S.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said Tuesday that the country's annual economic growth rate over the next five years will not be less than 6.5 percent.

While markets welcomed Turkey's election outcome Sunday, investors await substantive economic reforms in a country hobbled by slow growth and high inflation.

The statement comes a week after the USS Lassen challenged China's claim to the area for the first time since 2012.