ECONOMY & MARKETS

A new report says the uniquely American practice of compelling customers to subsidize tipped-worker incomes should end.

The CIA chief in Germany is the highest-ranking U.S. intelligence figure to be expelled from Germany, but not the first.

With the complex causes behind the influx of child migrants from Central America to the U.S., not everyone fits neatly under one label.

North America’s largest commuter rail service could stop operating as early as July 20 in ongoing labor dispute.

India's Narendra Modi-led BJP government presented an investor-friendly budget on Thursday.

The Federal Reserve has begun detailing how it plans to ease the U.S. economy out of an era of loose monetary policy.

New research suggests men earn more than women on insider trades due to the informal networks that male executives tend to build with each other.

The producer price index dropped 1.1 percent in its 28th straight month of decline.

Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang spoke at the Strategic Economic Dialogue between China and the U.S. in Beijing.

China's currency has been appreciating -- but the U.S. is still pushing for more.

Port workers joined truckers on strike in Los Angeles/Long Beach, amid a cooling-off period in heated contract negotiations.

Here, in a series of charts, are the biggest beneficiaries of the bank's financial services.

Critics say the project could destroy fragile ecosystems while lining the pockets of politicians and investors.

Brazil, the world’s fourth-largest auto market, is suffering an economic slump. Meanwhile, Mexico is enjoying a manufacturing boom.

India is planning to spend $10.95 billion in 2014-15 alone to overhaul the country's decrepit rail network, the railway minister said Tuesday.

Japan could see three times as many significant storm impacts this year as 2013 in part because of El Niño.

China became the world’s largest auto market four years ago, and its lead over the U.S. keeps growing.

Syria's Lake Assad experienced a record 20-foot drop in water levels as government and opposition forces crank up hydroelectric power.

The storm was expected to hit Japan's Okinawa island chain on early Tuesday and slam into mainland Japan on Wednesday.

The Fed says rising cost of higher education is pushing down home ownership, but a recent report says the link isn't clear.

Argentina reportedly will not make will not make a formal settlement offer on Monday

“We might see more U.S. banks bringing forward their rate-hike expectations this week."

China's first-quarter growth, while robust by global standards, missed the government's target for improvement.

Christine Lagarde & Co. appear to believe economic momentum has slackened since the publication of a key report in April.

India’s new government may seek to raise as much as a record $11.7 billion in asset sales in its maiden budget this week.

A new measure requiring websites to store user data on Russian servers has again raised fears of Internet censorship in the country.

Argentina has until the end of July to settle with creditors who refused to accept the terms of past bond restructurings.

The stock market might be cheering June’s jobs report, but there’s still a lot of pain out there.

"The rainfall pattern has gotten distorted this year, and it will have some impact on agricultural productivity."