There are still 120,000 British WWI war bonds outstanding, paying 3.5 percent interest.
Growth in China’s services sector slipped to a six-month low in July as new orders rose at their weakest rate in at least a year.
Gold prices are up this year thanks to geopolitics and a lagging U.S. economy, but they’re looking to fall again pretty soon.
China should set an economic growth target of 6.5-7 percent for 2015, below its goal for 2014, and refrain from stimulus measures unless activity threatens to slow sharply from that level, the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday.
Household budgets are getting squeezed as prices for goods and services are rising a bit faster than incomes.
The yellow metal rallied to as high as $1344 on 10 July, its highest since 17 March.
The producer price index dropped 1.1 percent in its 28th straight month of decline.
India’s new government may seek to raise as much as a record $11.7 billion in asset sales in its maiden budget this week.
Even in Germany, the backbone of the common currency area, the pace of growth eased.
A Commerce Department report had many wondering whether the U.S. is headed back to the worst economic times since the Great Depression.
Companies that survived the Great Recession are a lot more cautious in their hiring decisions.
On Wall Street overnight the S&P 500 ended at a fourth straight record closing high and the Dow at its third.
Europe's central bank cut its interest rates to below zero in an effort to boost inflation and juice its economy.
After years of economic hardship, Argentina wants to pay back $10 billion of its debt to bondholders.
The Federal Reserve doesn’t believe that it faces a “trade-off between its employment and inflation objectives.”
New jobless claims numbers as well as an uptick in inflation show U.S. economy recovering from a harsh winter.
The IMF aren’t ready to declare “Mission Accomplished" just yet and warn of lingering threats.
The survey showed a slight acceleration in input cost rises which, coupled with the accelerating recovery, may ease concerns about disinflation.
The bank is expected to predict consumer inflation will accelerate this year in its semi-annual outlook report.
If Britain keeps this up, it's going to replace Germany as the "strong man" of Europe.
The International Monetary Fund Monday critiqued Japan's touted economic reforms in a report.