ECONOMY & MARKETS

Consumers can't live without their smartphones, but there's a reason why mobile devices haven't supplanted PCs for e-purchases.

House prices around the world are creeping back to pre-crisis levels. What does that say about real estate's performance long-term?

The latest PMI data show that the UK recorded a 19-year high in output and new order growth, while the euro zone continues to recover.

U.S. stock markets and property markets in Brazil could be heading toward a bubble, Nobel laureate Robert Shiller has warned.

The uptick in local demand reflects China's policy changes this year to steer the economy toward a domestic-consumption model.

The White House had promised to fix the new health care website by this weekend.

The tiny Caribbean island nation wants to go from beach paradise to agricultural powerhouse, thanks to one crop.

Peru is one of the fastest growing nations in South America, but the expansion is coming at a price.

As Mongolia's economy slows down, the government is turning to investment in its stock exchange as a means of diversification.

Brazil's big city apartment prices are currently 60% higher than in Miami - enough to worry Nobel Prize winner Robert Shiller.

Could the party's ambitious plan turn out to be all talk and no action?

Black Friday is spreading outside of the U.S.

Asia's third-largest economy, which recently ground to its slowest pace in a decade, beat expectations in the September quarter.

Thanks to the rise of a young Internet-savvy generation, social media skills among workers will be taken for granted.

Unemployment in the euro zone fell for the first time in 33 months, while inflation showed modest improvement.

The event will feature the creations of Picasso, Rembrandt and China’s leading artists, including the most expensive living Asian artist.

If export orders keep up the momentum, it may offset an expected weakening of domestic demand when Japan hikes sales tax in April 2014.

America’s annual big ol' car-buying spree is heating up for the holidays. Consumers are expected to buy 1.2 million cars this month.

The speed at which credit is outpacing nominal GDP growth in Asia is worrying economists.

During Thursday’s trading, emissions allowance fetched 50 yuan ($8.2) a permit, which represents one ton of carbon dioxide.

Aided by strong sales and improved operating margins, Chinese industry put in yet another stellar performance.

India's economy grew at its slowest in a decade and the government is struggling to contain a severe deficit problem ahead of an election year.

Exports weakened as global demand faltered, and growth will be hampered even more in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan.

This video mash-up takes a look at where Thanksgiving consumers traded in their turkeys for discounts.

A legal victory by the people of the Oto-Ilogbo district offers a potential path forward for those living in the slums of Lagos, Nigeria.

The recent escalation of the conflict over the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands could lead to renewed disruption of bilateral trade and investment between China and Japan.

Northern Dynasty CEO Ron Thiessen spoke with IBTimes about the Alaskan copper mine proposal.

Here's a preview of the WTO’s last-ditch effort to pass watered-down but "deliverable" elements of the Doha Round of trade talks.

Angela Merkel will be sworn in after the Social Democrats voted on an agreement that was reached Tues. night after two months of negotiations.