ECONOMY & MARKETS

China has announced a plan to discourage overspending - something that may hurt luxury goods sales.

Could a controversial advertisement for a Chevrolet vehicle put General Motors' Chinese expansion plans in jeopardy?

With thousands dead or injured from the Rana Plaza garment-factory-building collapse, industry labor practices are under fire.

Analysts expected private employers to create 158,000 jobs last month. They got 75 percent of that forecast.

China's manufacturers found less demand for their products last month so factories were less busy. Not a good sign.

Europe may look like a disaster, but it's also home to some businesses that have success written all over them.

The poll says Americans are split along partisan lines about whether President Obama's budget represents a compromise.

However, confidence remains below its historic level, and it's too soon to tell if the rise will endure, analysts say.

The euro zone jobless rate grew to 12.1 percent in March. Youth unemployment, especially in the south, rose to an appalling level.

The average cost of rent in Beijing is now so high that many are on the verge of not being able to afford to live there.

The Chinese government's commitment to industrial policy is producing a string of losses from state-subsidized companies.

China's top-ranking businesspeople and officials are paid a fraction of their American counterparts, but that doesn't mean they're poor.

The Blue Angels along with other military air demonstration teams join the growing list of shows and events that have fallen victim to the sequestration budget cuts.

While fears about the impact of the crises in Cyprus and Italy have died down, the wider economic outlook has not improved.

Higher pending home sales signal that actual home sales may rise in coming months.

Some 3.5 million Bangladeshi workers toil in almost 5,000 garment factories to produce goods for the European and North American markets.

U.S. consumer spending in March rose more than had been expected by analysts. Meanwhile, core inflation remains low.

The International Monetary Fund warned that Asian policymakers should monitor growing financial imbalances fueled by cheap credit.

Monetary policies will also be in play, with European Central Bank and U.S. Federal Open Market Committee meetings on the calendar.

When Chinese authorities introduced a lottery for car tags, they did not foresee what it would do to the nation's auto industry.

The Federal Reserve will begin circulating a redesigned $100 bill this fall, and counterfeiters may find it a challenge.

Though many high-end hotels in China are only half-full, companies still plan to open more.

Strikers vow to continue even though they have been forced to make certain concessions.

The White House website lets taxpayers get a personalized look at where their tax dollars are being spent.

More than 120 million people in the country smoke, while almost one million die annually from tobacco-related causes.

Cashew nuts are one of Tanzania’s principal cash crops.

Spain's unemployment rate is already higher than what the IMF said it would peak at in 2013.

Sixty thousand children are reported missing every year in India, and more than two-thirds of them are never found.

The Federal Reserve unveiled its new redesign of the $100 bill on Wednesday. The new bill is set to enter circulation on Oct. 8.