ECONOMY & MARKETS

Swiss food giant Nestle wants to tackle severe levels of youth unemployment in Europe.

The comprehensive analysis found that Illinois was burdened with the greatest challenge in funding government workers' pensions.

The key 4-week moving average - which screens out anomalies like holidays, strikes and weather events - also decreased by 2.75K to 345,750.

After months of wrangling, Europe’s budgetary landscape through 2020 is starting to take shape.

Mounting concerns in the U.S. over worker safety in Bangladesh may force President Obama to suspend an import-duty waiver on Bangladeshi goods.

U.S. stock index futures advanced as investors await reports on personal spending and weekly jobless claims.

Slovenia’s banking sector is saddled with about 6.8 billion euros ($8.87 billion) worth of nonperforming loans, which is equivalent to 20% of its GDP.

Bright blue skies, shimmering ocean, white sand: Haiti, just another Caribbean paradise. Or so says its government.

In China's shadow, India -- the other emerging Asian superpower -- is making moves in Africa.

EU politicians have agreed to move the burden of failing banks to creditors and shareholders, and clients with more than €100,000 in deposits.

Asian markets rallied Thursday after a sharp downward revision of US GDP rekindled hopes that the US Fed might stretch its asset-purchase program.

The unemployment rate for high school grads is 7.4 percent, and for recent college grads, it’s 7.9 percent.

A Deloitte survey found that corporate executives expect to invest in growth and acquisitions in 2013.

With two straight quarters of negative GDP, Europe’s second largest economy announced that it has tipped back into a recession.

After the Blackhawks' Stanley Cup victory, Chicago woke up very unproductive -- and that can be costly.

Can Myanmar's farmers find an alternative to the highly profitable drug cultivation and export business?

Pope Francis established a new commission that will investigate the Vatican Bank following allegations of corruption that surfaced during the Vatileaks scandal.

But the No. 1 smartest city is the U.S. is on the West Coast.

Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said banks were resisting new regulations, in what are probably his final public remarks.

Asia and Middle Eastern superrich have helped push up the cost of British ultra-luxury goods and services.

Five years and trillions of dollars later, central banks in China and the U.S. are determined to mop up their excessive liquidity.

After a 12-year hiatus, the U.S. is back on top in terms of foreign direct investment sentiment; it was fourth in 2012.

In the first quarter, consumer spending, the main driver of the economy, was weaker than the initial estimate.

The U.S. is once again, after a dozen years, the preferred destination for foreign investors, overtaking China and other emerging economies.

Obama's visit to Africa this week could spur American economic partnerships in the region, at long last.

U.S. stock index futures gain on Wednesday as investors await the final estimate of first quarter GDP data.

India's market regulator, SEBI, eases investment norms for foreign investors to encourage fund flows to the deficit-riddled country.

India's central bank imposed restrictions on lending against gold by rural banks to discourage demand and reduce imports.

Strong US data helped boost most Asian stocks and drive down gold futures, while the Shanghai index continued to fall, despite PBoC's assurances.