ECONOMY & MARKETS

The man who made a fortune with George Soros back in the 1980s spoke with IBTimes about demand for natural resources worldwide.

In January 2014, manufacturing output increased by 0.7 percent but overall output decreased slightly.

Russia’s takeover of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula paradoxically is likely to weaken, rather than strengthen, its regional influence.

How will innovation, exports and technology play out in the country's plans for 2014?

Almost half of Europe's natural gas from Russia passes through Ukraine. Now Russian state-owned energy company Gazprom wants to stop the flow.

Investments in Peru’s mining sector could reach a record $14 billion in 2014.

The Feb. jobs report wasn't spectacular, but given current demographic trends, investors and job seekers will take it.

During their phone conversation, the U.S president and Japan's prime minister agreed Russia's presence in Ukraine is threatening world peace.

Moldova is one of the smallest economies in Europe which depends heavily on natural gas from Russia

Controlling the spread of measles in the U.S. can cost millions every year.

The BOE kept its key bank rate the same, and also maintained its purchased assets at the same level.

Since 1999, Washington has had the most generous U.S. state minimum wage. Here’s what happened to its jobless figures.

Up to 500,000 stores are expected to take part in the demonstration.

China has officially been dethroned as the global investment hot spot.

The Senate will meet Wed. to discuss the nomination of California-based Maria Contreras-Sweet as head of the Small Business Association.

The economic and political tug of war over Ukraine has been pulled substantially in the direction of the West.

The increase for January was also revised lower, providing further confirmation of a dip in job growth in late 2013/early 2014.

Here's what you need to know about the state of the Chinese economy and the annual National People's Congress.

In the third quarter of 2013, GDP had grown by 0.1 percent in the euro area and by 0.3 percent in the EU.

While Germany’s private sector grew at its fastest pace in 2.5 years, France’s suffered a faster decline than before.

The U.S. was concerned about a compulsory license given to India-based Natco Pharma to produce a cheaper cancer drug than Bayer's Nexavar.

The new numbers comes after Australia's central bank announced it would keep interest rates set at 2.5 percent.

Almost 100 works of art have been stolen from Havana's Art Museum. The FBI investigates, but mystery remains deep.

Thailand's billion-dollar seafood export industry charged with relying on slavery and human trafficking.

It is an interdependent world: Sanctions on Russia could hurt Boeing by choking imports of titanium, a metal it needs to make airplanes.

What's more, the number of daily calories lost per person varies from 400 calories a day to 1500 calories a day in the developed world.

Russia's oil wealth has allowed the nation to amass a stake amounting to 1.4 percent of outstanding U.S. debt.

Russia President Vladimir Putin Tuesday offered a "ray of light" regarding the crisis. It wasn't much, but it's a data point of hope.

In an election year, it's all about messaging, and Obama has quite a few for Republicans in his proposed 2015 budget.