ECONOMY & MARKETS

Greece currently owes nearly $270 billion to a "troika" of lenders.

Collapse in global oil prices is helping to push the Fed further from achieving a key policy goal of raising annual inflation to two percent.

The proposed budget for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 would exceed a $499 billion spending cap on the base budget by $35 billion.

World Bank chief proposes economic solution for future disease outbreaks.

The sector expects to be the biggest laggard in the S&P 500 in the fourth quarter after oil prices have fallen more than 40 percent since June.

U.S. apple growers may now sell all varieties of apples to China after a bumper crop season.

The economic cost of the storm is likely to fall far short of recent winter weather events.

Amid a historic drought, California is paying a premium to manufacture drinking water from the Pacific Ocean.

The construction giant is usually a good indicator of how the world’s economy is doing. And it doesn’t look great.

The world’s largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment also said cheap oil will hurt its 2015 sales.

The blue chip index also fell on concerns about a slowdown in the global economy.

British gross domestic product grew by 2.6 percent in 2014 as a whole, the Office for National Statistics said on Tuesday.

China’s leaders worry a rapidly cooling economy could lead to unemployment and social instability.

Many bond funds will have to sell Russia’s sovereign debt as it falls below investment grade.

The U.S. has seen a rising number of $1 billion storms as more people move to the coast and the climate changes.

The Dow wavered Monday following a victory by Greece's anti-austerity party, with economists looking ahead to the Fed's two-day policy meeting.

Even as he promises to make doing business in India easier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi says he'll monitor all major investment proposals.

The ruble has tumbled more than 10 percent against the dollar so far in 2015.

The recovery in exports could be a source of comfort for Shinzo Abe who is battling to re-kindle growth.

Felipe Calderon tells IBTimes most undocumented immigrants don't want to become American citizens: They merely want to work in the U.S.

Critics of quantitative easing say it doesn't do much to help the real economy and is instead a "backdoor" bailout of banks.

A win for the radical left would represent a major act of defiance of the continent's austerity hawks -- but don’t run for the so-called Grexit.

China's economy may have slowed in 2014, but skyscraper construction projects continued to raise the nation's skyline and global profile.

Thirty-seven percent of the population is under the age of 14, and many are leaving school unprepared to work.

U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman defended the proposed TPP deal against charges of secrecy.

Though global prices jumped on the news of Abdullah's death, experts expect a smooth transition and no big policy changes.

Security cooperation will be high on the agenda when Modi and Obama meet in New Delhi next week.

Arun Jaitley, the Indian finance minister, said the country needed to overhaul outdated laws and implement a "fair and reasonable" tax regime.

Markit's Eurozone Composite Flash Purchasing Managers' Index bounced to a five-month high of 52.2 from December's 51.4.