ECONOMY & MARKETS

Analyses indicate the recovery is actually faltering, based on multiple economic and market variables.

The Philippines has no diplomatic ties with Taiwan but maintains economic and cultural links.

With its bottom line improving, housing-finance giant Fannie Mae said it is paying the government back a $59 billion chunk of what it owes the U.S. government for its 2008 bailout.

Beijing says overall inflation increased by 2.4 percent in April. Excluding food? Only 1.6 percent.

The number of initial jobless claims fell 4,000 to 323,000, and the key four-week moving average also declined.

The bank also maintained its purchase of 375 billion pounds ($584 billion) of debt after the UK narrowly avoided a triple-dip recession.

Output in the euro zone's best performing economy ended Q1 on a high note, but the gains aren't expected to last.

Overall lending more than doubled in 2012 and loans to commercial enterprises are up 11 percent this year.

Sweet export volume numbers out of China do not jive with other data.

Foreign direct investment in Africa is ramping up, but forget China and the West. This growth is intra-continental.

After three years, New York is back as the city with the most billionaires. Click through to see where you'll find the richest.

The court's ruling that the First Amendment gives people the right to not communicate favors private businesses, not unions.

U.S. stocks set more records Tuesday, as a four-year long bull market stampedes into a fifth year.

Down Under's five-month-old immigrant investor visa is relatively expensive compared to similar visa programs.

China is now experiencing its third wave of mass emigration, and this time it's not the poor who are leaving.

Brazil's candidate for director-general of the World Trade Organization has been chosen for the position, replacing Pascal Lamy.

France's economy fell into recession in the first quarter, according to figures set to be released on Wednesday.

Two Chinese provinces' plans to expand local vineyards may prove costly for the endangered species.

Last year, China poured some £8 billion into the U.K. -– an all-time record –- and quintuple the amount from just two year ago.

Debt-burdened country finds investors willing to loan it 3 billion euros, despite the country's diminished credit ratings.

Turkey plans to build a second nuclear power plant courtesy of a Japanese-French consortium.

German and France finance chiefs will meet Tuesday, on the heels of France hailing the EC's decision to extend budget-cutting deadline.

India's services sector recorded its slowest growth in 18 months following lower overseas demand for new services.

Caterpillar Inc. announced it would slash the workforce at its plant in Decatur, Ill., for the second time in as many months.

Economic growth is on the upswing in Africa, but it will only continue if the drivers of commerce can take flight.

This incident is only one of a number of episodes that have triggered questions about the safety of air travel in India.

The European Commission attempted to stress growth in its forecast, albeit in a pretty pessimistic way.

With 1,000 films produced annually (about double Hollywood’s output), Bollywood is the world’s most prolific cinema factory.

No, the current U.S. job market is not “a jungle out there.” But it’s close.