ECONOMY & MARKETS

In exchange for funding, Greece has accepted significant reforms to pensions, taxes, its collective bargaining system and public spending.

Twenty people died in a landslide in India's Manipur close to the border with Myanmar, while nine more deaths were reported in the country formerly known as Burma.

Failure to seal the agreement is a setback for U.S. President Barack Obama, given the trade pact's stance as the economic arm of the administration's pivot to Asia and an opportunity to balance out China's influence in the region.

The Obama administration’s new pilot program to expand federal Pell grants to prisoners makes them vulnerable to the for-profit college industry.

Within 10 years, medical-related economic activity is projected to constitute nearly 20 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product.

Dodd-Frank reporting rules may be too lax to fully appreciate hedge funds' systemic dangers, a new report from a Treasury Department unit argues.

Economists expect job gains to continue this year.

A Medicare pilot program for 8,400 patients demonstrated $25 million in savings in its first year.

China's Supreme Court in Beijing dismissed the trademark suit under the grounds that there was insufficient evidence.

Struggling to unify his splintering Syriza party, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said he would not be bullied any further on austerity measures and called for a party-wide vote.

The International Monetary Fund has decided against participating in a third Greek bailout effort.

The U.S. economy bounced back in the April-June quarter after shrinking in the first three months of the year due to labor disputes at West Coast ports.

Import bans were instituted in 2014 in response to Western sanctions on Russian imports amid the Ukraine crisis and have greatly disrupted the daily lives of ordinary Russians.

Greece narrowly averted an exit from the euro zone for now when it struck an 11th-hour deal with lenders this month.

“We are dedicated Europeans. We just want our country to stop overcharging us with taxes.”

No. 1: The program helped end racial segregation in medical facilities.

An inevitable rise in interest rates will have broad affects on consumers as windows of opportunity narrow on these three types of financial products.

The former Greek finance minister is facing criticism at home over his leaked phone conversations.

Pharmacists say they can do far more than U.S. insurers and the healthcare industry currently allows — and with greater responsibility would come greater care and savings for patients.

Horst Seehofer's Christian Social Union (CSU) has taken a tougher stance on Greece than Merkel's party.

The e-commerce giant unveiled its proposal at a NASA conference on Tuesday.

Conventional wisdom says a $15 minimum wage is good news for fast-food workers. But what about their employers?

As negotiators enter the final round of talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, concerns around human rights take hold in Washington.

The so-called troika is vastly unpopular with Greeks, who have angrily protested the creditors’ presence in the past.

Investors are looking to the Fed’s policy meeting for more clues on when the central bank plans to hike interest rates.

Across the board, health insurance rates are expected to increase next year.

A German council suggested the euro area's crisis toolkit should be complemented by a mechanism for orderly sovereign insolvencies.

Monday once again saw major declines in China's stock markets, raising fears of global economic fallout. But analysts aren't too worried.

The $40.5 billion deal is the latest in a string of mergers and acquisitions prompted by stiffer competition in the drug business.