Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush weighs in on some hot issues, with an eye toward the 2016 presidential race.
Payroll provider ADP said businesses added a better-than-expected 198,000 jobs in February, despite the payroll tax hike.
Economists polled by Reuters expect the economy to have created 160,000 jobs in February -- basically at the same pace as 2012.
INRIX Gridlock Index says traffic congestion increases as companies ship more, hire more and as consumers spend more.
The March ISM reports shows that the services sector grew 0.8 percent in February to 56 percent.
Germany and France are now farther apart than at any other time in the 15-year history of the Markit PMI survey.
China's version of the the 2013 Forbes Billionaires list suggests that hundreds of Chinese billionaires are not being accounted for.
Medellín, once known as a center of drug trafficking, is trying to change its image through improvements to public security.
The 12th National People’s Congress meeting, China’s top legislative body, will convene Tuesday and close on March 17.
Haruhiko Kuroda, Tokyo's nominee to be Bank of Japan's head honcho, vows to fight against deflation.
The job market will dominate economic news in the U.S. next week, with the latest figures on nonfarm payrolls to be released Friday.
The yen's slide is an effort to jump-start Japan, but holders of the dollar, won, Euro, yuan and other currencies see it as an act of aggression.
Households responded to this hit to income by spending more and reducing their savings. But what does it mean for the economy's health?
Europe's jobless rate is getting worse, not better. In Spain and Greece, jobless youths number well above 50 percent.
China's manufacturing activity expanded at a slower rate in February, data released Friday by the National Bureau of Statistics showed.
India’s manufacturing sector expanded at a higher-than-expected rate in February, backed by strong domestic orders, HSBC India Manufacturing PMI said.
The International Monetary Fund says the budget action would lead to an economic slowdown in the U.S., which would ripple across the globe.
Although 4Q GDP was revised higher, the economy must grow at a much stronger rate to lower the U.S.' high unemployment rate.
The one-year tax is one of the ways India aims to cut inflation, reduce the deficit and improve its credit rating.
What are the odds of a British exit from the European Union, or a “Brexit,” and what would it mean for investors and the global economy?
Finance Minister P. Chidambaram presented the budget for 2013-14 on Thursday as the country's growth has slowed significantly.
The underlying strength of the report suggests that business investment started the New Year on a particularly strong note.
A full Senate vote is expected to occur this week.
However, the headline consumer confidence index is still well below the long-term average of 92.
Canada started the process of phasing out its one-cent coin. What are America's plans for the future of its penny?
Fluctuating lunar calendar celebrations make gauging Chinese factory output in the first two months of 2013 a challenge.
The Japanese government is set to raise over $10 billion from a sale of stake in a tobacco company to fund the reconstruction of areas devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
China manufacturing activity dropped to a four-month low of 50.4 in February pulling back from a two-year-high of 52.3 recorded in January, a survey by HSBC-Markit showed Monday.
In a major blow to the United Kingdom, Moody's Investors Service stripped the country of its coveted triple-A sovereign rating on Friday, saying the nation's rising debt burden and weak growth prospects weigh on the economy. Moody’s lowered the U.K.'s domestic and foreign-currency bond rating by a notch from Aaa to Aa1.
The world's most accurate forecaster of the U.S. economy is a 26-year-old Frenchman who has never been to the U.S.