ECONOMY & MARKETS

Struggles for domestic steel producers who grapple with cheap foreign imports and low oil prices could be exacerbated by the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Top free trade negotiators ended two days of talks without an agreement on agricultural exports and auto parts.

A new report suggests the scale and scope of Chinese urbanization has been seriously underestimated.

China's biggest car show is a window on sexism in the country, and on efforts to move beyond it.

Western sanctions following annexation of the peninsula cost his country $27B last year, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said.

BlackRock's Laurence Fink is among the asset managers pointing to possible trouble in China's financial sector.

ZEW said the world economy was dampening Germany's export prospects and reducing the potential for further improvement.

The ban would hit a multi-billion dollar industry - as the legislature also considers tightening a ban on tobacco advertising.

A powerful construction union flouts the AFL-CIO's pledge to freeze campaign contributions.

Morgan Stanley and Hasbro, unlike some big corporations, turned in strong quarterly results to boost the stock market.

The state is losing its wetlands at a dramatic clip, in part due to the BP oil spill in 2010. Residents are racing to halt the destruction.

The funds are expected to help Pakistan recover from its energy crisis and give Beijing direct access to the Arabian Sea and beyond.

The latest cut is the deepest single reduction since the depth of the global crisis in 2008.

Athens has been stuck in negotiations with its euro zone partners and the IMF over lender-specified economic reforms.

If confirmed, the death toll would bring to 1,500 the number of dead since Jan. 1 resulting from the flow of migrants seeking to flee sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East.

“The size of the cut is more than expected,” one analyst says. “It’s going to release around a trillion yuan ($160 billion) [in liquidity] at least.”

Climate change and its threat to the economy "can no longer be denied," U.S. President Barack Obama says Saturday, in advance of his Earth Day speech.

As the U.S. looks poised to increase interest rates, the International Monetary Fund voiced concerns in a draft communique.

"We have disagreements on several issues on the international agenda. But at the same time there is something that unites us, that forces us to work together," Putin said.

Arizona voters could decide whether to legalize recreational marijuana in 2016, assuming advocates collect enough signatures supporting a ballot initiative.

The presidential candidate now says she is reserving judgment on the Pacific trade pact she once described as "the gold standard."

The ONS said Britain's unemployment rate fell to 5.6 percent, its lowest level since July 2008.

Many Africans were using cell phones to make payments long before it was cool in Europe and North America.

The oil-rich kingdom is pumping 10.29 million barrels a day. The U.S. output is even higher, but that will change.

Organic food sales jumped 11 percent in 2014 as the USDA reported a “record” number of organic farmers.

The Chinese government’s increasing focus on rural development has prompted banks to spread their networks into the country’s villages.

The yields on all German government debt out to January 2024 were negative.

In New York and across the country, thousands of low-wage earners took to the streets, calling for “$15 and a union.”

Economies in Liberia and Sierra Leone are recovering from the deadly outbreak -- but not everyone is benefiting, World Bank data show.