ECONOMY & MARKETS

Cisco helped propel the blue-chip index, while gains from Apple and Expedia boosted the Nasdaq to its loftiest level since 2000.

The California tech giants this week announced separate clean-energy projects, in a sign that wind and solar power are getting cheaper.

A recent report described Middle Eastern countries as “heavily dependent on expatriate health care workers."

Eight of the 10 worst maritime polluting nations were Asian. Here's how much worse the world's oceans will look in 10 years.

Alpha Natural Resources Inc., a top U.S. coal producer, told investors it will make significant cost cuts in 2015 in light of tough market conditions.

The booming legal marijuana industry is drawing military veterans from combat to cannabis — not to smoke it, but to protect it.

The Ebola outbreak is finally slowing down, but the countries are left facing a massive food crisis.

Apparently, quite a bit. With time running out on Greece's bailout, there are few advantages if the country leaves the eurozone.

American workers say they're dissatisfied, but in 2014, only a small fraction of them went on strike.

BoE Governor Mark Carney said there was little long-term risk associated with the falling inflation.

Negative rates as a stimulus measure were rejected by many economists as not feasible until the financial crisis.

The Australian Prime Minister was responding to a question in parliament about the country’s rising unemployment, which is at a 12-year high.

Obama is expected to veto the measure, which could hasten his final decision on the Canada-to-Texas pipeline.

Researchers' findings have tripled the number of previously known genetic markers for obesity.

A February 2015 Pew Research poll shows a larger share of Americans are hearing good news about the jobs situation.

Maritime shippers and port operators blame the longshore workers union for worsening congestion at 29 West Coast ports.

The Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc. say a stronger U.S. dollar isn't exactly good news when it comes to their bottom lines.

A new report shows industrial robotics prices are starting to fall below the cost of labor. And it’s happening worldwide.

The program offers Venezuelan oil to Caribbean countries at bargain prices. But Venezuela's economic woes are putting its future in doubt.

European policymakers have urged Athens to seek an extension to the bailout program when it expires at the end of the month.

But, Colorado's politicians are expected to approve a ballot this spring to ask voters if they can keep the money.

Yi's remarks came after China posted its slowest economic growth in 24 years in 2014.

Fears over tensions in Greece faded as investors await a possible debt deal when finance ministers meet in Brussels Wednesday.

Midwest states suffer more frequent flood events as regional temperatures and rainfalls rise, Iowa researchers say.

The insurgency in the northeast is causing chaos ahead of the postponed election, but so is the oil price plunge.

The state's voters approved a minimum wage hike in November, but State Rep. Jim Bolin already wants to change that.

Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives have put the economy at the center of their campaign to remain in government.

Economists are looking ahead to key inflation data that will gauge consumers' purchasing power in China.

In the end, you will either get a refund or have to send a check for unpaid taxes.