ECONOMY & MARKETS

Sales of Burberry trench coats and Louis Vuitton handbags have been hit by the economic slowdown in China, with sales down from last year.

Ukraine bought a $3 billion bond from Russia right before former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown in 2014.

Arizona State University's business school announced it will make its two-year full-time M.B.A. program free starting next fall.

Nigeria is Turkey's top trading partner in sub-Saharan Africa and with Turkey's relationship with Russia growing tense, the partnership could grow.

Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy, is a rare chief executive to face criminal prosecution over workplace safety issues.

The U.S. Federal Reserve’s latest Beige Book revealed Wednesday how the sector was affected from mid-August through early October.

The new policy will first be tested in November at The Modern.

The league will fly dozens of researchers to Pittsburgh to decide if all U.S. doctors should change the way they treat concussions.

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump said Wednesday that the U.S. economy is in a bubble that is about to pop.

Despite global economic uncertainty, the U.K. saw its unemployment rate fall with the highest number of people working since 1971.

European shares fell at the open Wednesday and Asian stocks closed in the red as investors mulled over the likelihood of new stimulus measures in China.

The nation's central bank -- which uses the exchange rate, rather than interest rates, to boost or slow the economy -- said it will slow the rate of appreciation of the Singapore dollar for the second time this year.

This year is on track to see record dealmaking activity. But with half of transactions historically falling short, what should shareholders watch out for?

One billion young people are expected to look for work in the next decade, but only 40 percent will succeed if the global economy remains as is, a report said.

The International Energy Agency said the global oversupply of crude will continue amid slower demand growth and surging Middle East production.

The bank will acquire General Electric's $30 billion middle-market commercial lending unit, a significant chunk of GE's remaining finance business.

Goldman Sachs researchers say declining labor force participation will continue to depress the unemployment rate.

Global inequality continued to rise in 2015, driven largely by growth in financial assets, according to the annual Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report.

While some small businesses are planning wage increases, the majority are worried about taxes and a poor business climate in the U.S.

Ukraine borrowed $3 billion from Russia in 2013, and the Kremlin said it is in desperate need of the money to fund import infrastructure projects.

Singapore will release the economic report Wednesday, the same time the Monetary Authority of Singapore announces whether it will give the economy a boost.

A 3.7 percent drop in exports beat some predictions, but imports plunged 20.4 percent, raising fears about China's domestic consumption.

Angus Deaton, who was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Monday, has said that foreign assistance "does more harm than good."

Income inequality is a higher-profile issue, in part because of Angus Deaton, whose research was rewarded Monday with a Nobel Prize.

Wall Street is bracing for what could be a grim start to corporate earnings this fall.

Former workers say the companies failed to follow basic safety measures, exposing the employees to painful and deadly diseases.

Ankara's economy has slumped almost parallel to rising instability in the country.

The German automaker's emissions-software controversy has affected mostly European nations, but countries in Africa and Asia have not been immune.

Asian markets rallied after the U.S. Federal Reserve moved to keep rates steady in September.