ECONOMY & MARKETS

The latest HSBC China purchasing managers’ indexes indicate a divergence between the two economic sectors.

The latest levels of Japan’s PMI composite and its PMI for the service sector indicate a slowdown in the economy.

The world’s trade referee said China “acted inconsistently” in slapping tariffs on U.S. chicken products.

When trouble arrives, banks often depart, and access to cash becomes difficult. This is the story of how people bank in conflict zones.

China is famously the land of tea. But the world's biggest coffee chain is betting it will change its ways.

Edward Snowden may have saved U.S children from broccoli as the cost of importing the vegetable has gone up after Ecuador and U.S fallout.

Chinese ag-chem companies are moving into the lucrative U.S. pesticide market.

A dozen states will participate in tax-free weekend Aug. 2-4.

Factory orders in June were boosted by demand for transportation equipment, which rose 12 percent.

After surviving in a stagnant economy for decades, Myanmar's domestic companies are facing a new challenge.

All eyes are now on the Fed and what the jobs report may mean for the central bank's easy-money policies.

Larry Summers, Janet Yellen or Donald Kohn will be the next Fed chairman.

Friday’s jobs data may help determine if the economy is creating jobs fast enough for the Fed to consider winding down its stimulus program.

The $50 billion industrial hub is having difficulties rounding up the funding it requires.

Cuba's first solar farm is located 190 miles east of Havana in the central province of Cienfuegos.

An online survey polling 6,600 people from 16 countries points to increased spending by the rapidly expanding middle class in emerging markets.

The Purchasing Managers Index rose 4.5 percent to 55.4 as stable demand and improving business conditions boosted employment.

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said interest rates would remain significantly low for the near future.

Manufacturing output rose in Europe, fueling speculation that recovery may be around the corner.

The Labor Department says the number of initial jobless claims fell by 16,000 to 334,000 and the four-week moving average increased to 346,000.

Indian stocks suffer a downgrade by Goldman Sachs while a separate survey shows factory activity dropped in July.

A continuation of the Fed's stimulus and a rise in factory activity in the EU and China to keep sentiment upbeat, pending U.S. economic data.

The bill allows undergraduates to borrow at 3.86 percent interest this year, based on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note yield on June 1.

Official and private estimates of the state of China's factory sector differ, making it harder to judge the true health of the country's economy.

Joint labor and environmental standards underpin part of the agreement, with the three Central American countries expected to benefit more from the pact than the EU.

Also, the Fed said Wednesday that its outlook on the nation's economy was slightly less optimistic than a few months ago.

Chinese tourists accounted for 24 percent of tax-free consumption worldwide in 2012.

Nine of them used to be major manufacturing centers.

In the past, Summers has argued that tax and spending policy are more important to economic growth than monetary policy.