Worried about potential leaks, the EU informed each country only about the risks it would face, rather than sharing full details with all 28 member states.
One trend: via energy and spinoff jobs, the oil and gas boom is tightening local labor markets in Texas, Louisiana, Utah and North Dakota.
Russia is looking at the possibility of filing a lawsuit against the U.S. at the World Trade Organization over sanctions affecting Russian banks.
Overall industrial production was up 0.7 percent in March, beating analysts' expectations.
Permits, a more-reliable gauge of future building activity, fell in March to a 990,000-unit annual pace.
Payment will be the fifth of six installments that together will total $4.2 billion.
China's GDP growth slowed to its slowest pace in 18 months; as a result, officials are looking for ways to maintain the 7.5% target growth rate.
The unemployment rate fell to a level below the one originally set by the Bank of England for considering an increase in interest rates.
The January-March GDP figure, while showing a decline, still beat forecasts.
Venezuela and China have quietly built a strong economic relationship, but President Nicolás Maduro wants more: a political alliance.
Envoys from Russia, Ukraine, the European Union and the United States are scheduled to meet Thursday to discuss the Ukraine crisis.
Gunfire could be heard from the airfield at the town of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine; Ukrainian troops were seen disembarking from helicopters.
Libya is a major supplier of oil for Mediterranean refineries, and sustained oil exports from the country should lower Brent crude prices.
European Union diplomats said there was little prospect of a special summit to discuss additional sanctions because positions are so far apart.
The most serious East-West crisis since the end of the Cold War shows no signs of de-escalating.
NATO called on Russia to "de-escalate the crisis ... pull back its troops from Ukraine's borders, to stop destabilizing the situation."
Russia's intervention in Ukraine has Georgians worried about another Russia move - this time to the critical Caucuses land bridge.
In the 12 months through March, the core inflation rate, which excludes often-volatile food and energy prices, rose just 1.7%.
IBTimes talks to Duke professor Campbell Harvey about the financial "nuclear option" that would have severe costs - for both sides.
CBO also estimates that 12 million more nonelderly people will have health insurance in 2014 than if Obamacare had not become law.
The sanctions, not specified in the initial vote, will likely include more people under asset freezes and visa bans.
Unexpectedly, favored presidential candidate Joko Widodo's party won only 19 percent of the parliamentary seats.
Rebels in the eastern Ukraine town of Slaviansk Monday issued a bold call for Russian President Putin to help them.
Rather than being single-issue voters with narrow national interests, the survey suggests far-right Eurosceptics share a common set of values.
Turkey Mon. urged Twitter execs to open an office and start paying taxes in the first direct talks since a short-lived two-week ban.
Earlier, Russia's Deputy Premier Arkady Dvorkovich went to China as part of a delegation to discuss cooperation in the energy sector.
Retail sales account for a third of U.S. consumer spending, and a sustained increase bodes well for GDP, earnings and job growth.
Major Chinese property developers have in recent months been buying increasingly large stakes in regional banks - a problematic asset addition.
The former chief China analyst at Deutsche Bank is considered an insider in both the Western and the Chinese financial worlds.
Officials of the proposed French-Swiss company plan to unload billions in assets to get the regulatory blessing they need to merge.