ECONOMY & MARKETS

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.

But factory output rose 1.0 percent in December helped by a much-awaited rebound in exports.

U.S. stocks rebounded Thursday as tech giants Google and Amazon prepare to unveil quarterly results.

The U.S. still has $15.3 billion to spend in Afghanistan, and someone’s got to keep an eye on it.

Despite the central bank remaining "patient" on hiking rates, the Dow dropped after oil prices plunged.

Global economies are showing signs of weakness — and economists fear that cheap oil could negatively impact a burgeoning U.S. economy.

In what could be a positive signal to attract foreign investors, India says it will not pursue a tax-liability case against Vodafone.

The blue-chip stock index rebounded Wednesday, boosted by strong earnings from Apple and Boeing, as economists await a statement from the Fed.

Could cheap oil derail the renewable energy industry? Investors seem to think so, but this isn’t exactly the 1980s all over again.

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.