ECONOMY & MARKETS

Greece’s new finance minister has met with European leaders to find a compromise, but it won't be simple.

As one of the world's fastest-growing smartphone markets, Africa is seeing a rise in demand for gray-market smartphones.

With talks between the United Steelworkers and Royal Dutch Shell at a standstill, the refinery strike goes on -- and it could grow.

The president proposed $1.2 billion to tamp down the nation’s overuse of antibiotics and to find new ways to fight superbugs.

The debate about whether to withdraw reflects concerns within the ECB that its sovereign bond-buying plan could lead to conflicts of interest.

Companies may also require greater persuasion to invest in Iranian fields due to low crude prices.

The RBI also announced a slew of initiatives to develop markets.

Markets had been leaning toward a cut this week, though only 9 of 29 analysts in a Reuters poll had tipped a move.

President Obama's latest budget expands the earned-income tax credit, which may well win Republican support.

The proposal includes a $4 billion fund to help states speed emissions reductions and $7.4 billion for clean energy projects.

Obama's proposed budget aims to prop up a sagging middle class.

Patients who volunteer their genomic and medical data to a new nationwide study will be signing up for limited protection and the potential for ethical quandaries.

U.S. stocks fluctuated Monday as economists sorted through a series of mixed data ahead of Friday's highly anticipated jobs report.

The Obama administration is on track to issue its final verdict of the Canada-to-Texas pipeline early this spring after a crucial Monday deadline passed.

British manufacturing output is still around 5.3 percent below its pre-downturn peak in early 2008.

Alexis Tsipras, Greece's leftist prime minister, says he intends to pursue his mandate of renegotiating debt terms with Europe.

The survey's results were mostly collected before the European Central Bank announced a near-trillion euro quantitative easing program.

India's experiment to bring social benefits to a billion people with a unique ID is moving fast, according to Nandan Nilekani.

The dour data mirrored two official reports released by the government on Sunday.

Maduro accuses a rapacious business elite of waging an "economic war" to bring down his administration.

Greece has enough money on hand to meet its February and March obligations of 3.5 billion euros ($3.95 billion) but not anything beyond that.

The White House apparently believes it can drum up bipartisan support for the proposal, which will be sent to Congress Monday.

The Federal Reserve last week lifted its assessment of the U.S. expansion to “solid” from “moderate.”

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says he is confident “we will soon manage to reach a mutually beneficial agreement" with Europe.

Even the Belarusian president dubbed "the last dictator in Europe" is distancing himself from Moscow these days.

U.S. stocks were hit hard in January, with the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping 3.7 percent.

Global fears weighed on the financial markets Friday after the U.S. economy grew slower than expected last quarter.

Pricing mechanisms on the federal health marketplace may be meant to discourage HIV patients from enrolling in certain plans.

The bank hiked its key rate by a total of 11.5 percentage points last year in response to panic on the currency market and soaring inflation.