ECONOMY & MARKETS

The EU's trade balance overcame a trade deficit from the previous month, while the euro zone's surplus nearly doubled over last year's.

Factory activity was fueled by rising exports, while low demand within the euro zone suppressed growth in the service sector.

America's civil engineers say the nation's infrastructure needs vast improvement

American aviation infrastructure is grossly under-performing in 2013 and was rated in a recent report as "poor."

In the true spirit of the holidays, Venezuela's leader promises a new round of economic intervention.

A cautionary tale of poverty stricken people who gave up everything, in some cases their lives, to borrow a few dollars.

Latin American air transport will keep rising, if government policies do not ground it.

Despite many structural hurdles and economic headwinds, Britain is in the midst of an entrepreneurial renaissance.

The world's fastest-growing air travel market struggles to find enough qualified people to fill pilot seats.

The just-completed, annual, high-level meeting is closed-door, but a few themes were communicated.

As the second leg of the Keystone XL Pipeline approaches completion, the project faces growing pressure from opposition groups.

Drought is usually overlooked as a devastating natural disaster, but it has triggered huge losses in Latin America.

Nicaragua is determined to see its dream of a transoceanic canal rivaling the Panama Canal come to life. Opponents say it will never happen.

GDP growth will slow just a little more in China, but that pace is in-line with the nation's plan for reform.

India’s installed capacity of solar power has already jumped from about 30 megawatts (MW) to more than 2,000 MW.

Fischer is well-known in international economic policy. At MIT, Fischer once taught current Fed Chairman Bernanke and ECB President Draghi.

Those expecting a quick tightening of monetary policy in 2014 will encounter a sobering reality.

U.S. home prices have had an impressive run since the end of the housing crash. What's ahead in 2014?

A drop in fuel prices, among other factors, exerted downward inflationary pressure in both France and Italy.

Boeing's deadlines for the 777X production have passed; now questions are being asked about who really benefits from its huge tax breaks.

Traditional risk rankings for global industrial companies may no longer measure up to reality, according to Barclays.

Many companies use nonstandard accounting measures to put a creative spin on their financial reporting. The SEC is looking into that.

Chinese consumer demand for gold may reach the highest ever for any country in 2013.

A fall in imports of the precious metal helped Asia's third-largest economy post a sharp annual decline in its trade deficit.

Surprisingly enough, Brazil gets fewer tourists than Mexico and even Portugal.

A stubborn jobless rate keeps Greece reeling under austerity measures put in place after the nation's debt crisis.

Low energy prices helped Germany's consumer inflation rate to hold steady in the month of November.

A two-year deal was announced Tuesday by the lead congressional budget negotiators.

The U.S. has some of the highest income-inequality levels in the world, among advanced economies, generally faring worse relative to European countries.