Economy News

Investing.com - China at the weekend said it is concerned about Federal Reserve timing in increasing interest rates, noting any move to do so after the prolonged period of easy...

• ByInvesting.com•Mar 23, 2014

By Philip Ross - Aided by a possible new lead that could point to the location of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, search teams continued to scour the southern Indian Ocean by air...

• ByInternational Business Times•Mar 23, 2014

Investing.com - The economic calendar for the week ending March 28 contains reports on the U.S. housing sector and consumer confidence. Elsewhere, China is to release data on...

• ByInvesting.com•Mar 23, 2014

By Brett Forman - Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said at a press conference that satellites have found objects about 2,400 kilometers (1,500 miles) off the coast of...

• ByInternational Business Times•Mar 22, 2014

By Arjun Kashyap - A transcript of communications from the cockpit of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, before it went missing on March 8, was published by UK-based The Telegraph...

• ByInternational Business Times•Mar 22, 2014

By Moran Zhang - The March Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) statement attempted to convey a status quo message, but markets apparently saw it differently. But some economists...

• ByInternational Business Times•Mar 21, 2014

By Suman Varandani - Warren Truss, Australia’s deputy prime minister, said Friday that the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in a remote portion of the southern Indian...

• ByInternational Business Times•Mar 21, 2014

By Meagan Clark - The United Nations Security Council has unanimously condemned attempts to illegally export crude oil from Libya and imposed sanctions on ships involved in the...

• ByInternational Business Times•Mar 20, 2014

By Michelle FlorCruz - China is about to be littered with even more “ghost cities” as one of the nation’s biggest land developers faces collapse. One of China’s largest developers,...

• ByInternational Business Times•Mar 20, 2014

By Sneha Shankar - A combined review done by The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA) and the Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA, into the airplane maker's pioneering 787 Dreamliner, has...

• ByInternational Business Times•Mar 20, 2014

By Arjun Kashyap -Update as of 12:30 a.m. EDT: Australian officials announced at a press conference Thursday afternoon local time that efforts to search for missing Flight MH370...

• ByInternational Business Times•Mar 20, 2014

Investing.com - Australia Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Thursday said objects identified by satellite images may belong to missing Malaysian Airlines flight 370 and that search...

• ByInvesting.com•Mar 19, 2014

By Sophie Song - Doing business in China is not getting any easier for American companies as ongoing interference from the Chinese government and the recent economic slowdown have...

• ByInternational Business Times•Mar 19, 2014

By Sneha Shankar - Two of the fastest growing markets in the world -- India and China -- have signed an agreement to work together in software, information technology and...

• ByInternational Business Times•Mar 19, 2014

Investing.com - Investors will be focusing on the outcome of the Federal Reserve’s monthly policy meeting later Wednesday. Meanwhile, the U.K. is to release its latest jobs report,...

• ByInvesting.com•Mar 19, 2014

By Alberto Riva - According to a local newspaper, residents of a remote island in the Maldives, Kuda Huvadhoo, spotted a plane a 6:15am local time on March 8 that could have been...

• ByInternational Business Times•Mar 19, 2014

Investing.com - The Bank of Japan could consider using mainly zero interest rates and phase out large-scale asset purchases if the current aggressive easing policy is successful in...

• ByInvesting.com•Mar 18, 2014

By Sophie Song - Hong Kong's ranks of millionaires rose 22 percent in 2013, but one in 10 of its wealthy are considering emigration. The number of people with more than 1 million...

• ByInternational Business Times•Mar 18, 2014

By Moran Zhang - News that a Chinese real estate developer is unable to repay its bank loans surfaced less than two weeks after the country's first domestic bond default,...

• ByInternational Business Times•Mar 18, 2014

By Sophie Song - Wealthy Chinese may be buying up too much land Down Under, at the expense of middle-class Australians who are finding properties increasingly unaffordable. The...

• ByInternational Business Times•Mar 18, 2014

By Meagan Clark - The world’s largest oil consumer, the Pentagon, is looking to space to harvest energy. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is building solar panels to...

• ByInternational Business Times•Mar 18, 2014
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Investing.com - Russian President Vladimir Putin called for Crimea to be added to Russia in a highly-anticipated speech in front of the country’s parliament earlier on...

• ByInvesting.com•Mar 18, 2014

By Moran Zhang - Further tapering of quantitative easing, or QE, is widely expected at Janet Yellen’s first policy-setting meeting as chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve this week....

• ByInternational Business Times•Mar 18, 2014

By Meagan Clark - European countries that have long opposed hydraulic fracturing appear to be rethinking their perspective as Russian troops stay put in Crimea and threaten to keep...

• ByInternational Business Times•Mar 18, 2014

By Nat Rudarakanchana - The U.S. Virgin Islands is attempting to lure small businesses with substantial corporate tax breaks, in a bid to create jobs and diversify the tiny...

• ByInternational Business Times•Mar 18, 2014

By Angelo Young - After several days of pollution levels typical of giant, fast-growing Chinese cities, Paris city officials began the week with car driving restrictions unseen for...

• ByInternational Business Times•Mar 17, 2014

By Philip Ross - As the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 continues, investigators have come across some startling evidence that the plane could have been...

• ByInternational Business Times•Mar 16, 2014
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Investing.com - The economic calendar for the week ending March 21 contains reports on the U.S. housing sector, inflation and factory activity, but the main event that investors...

• ByInvesting.com•Mar 16, 2014

By Moran Zhang - Russia’s 10 richest individuals lost as much as $6.6 million, or 4.7 percent of their combined net worth since last Monday, according to a new report published by...

• ByInternational Business Times•Mar 14, 2014

By Suman Varandani - A US Airways plane’s nose gear collapsed during takeoff at Philadelphia International Airport Thursday evening with 154 passengers and crew on board, prompting...

• ByInternational Business Times•Mar 14, 2014

Investing.com - Several Bank of Japan board members said the the decision in February to expand pro-growth lending tools should not be considered additional monetary easing, the...

• ByInvesting.com•Mar 13, 2014

By Reuters Reporter - KUALA LUMPUR/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new search area for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 may be opened in the Indian Ocean, the White House said, significantly...

• ByInternational Business Times•Mar 13, 2014

By Moran Zhang - Direct economic impact of the sanctions that have been agreed by Western governments on Russia is likely to be limited since the focus is on key individuals rather...

• ByInternational Business Times•Mar 13, 2014

By Reuters Reporter - (Reuters) - Malaysian authorities said on Thursday there was no evidence that a jetliner missing for almost six days flew for hours after losing contact with...

• ByInternational Business Times•Mar 13, 2014

By Kukil Bora - Major U.S. technology companies, including Apple (NASDAQ:AAP) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), have invested an estimated $163 billion in U.S. government debt -- $124...

• ByInternational Business Times•Mar 13, 2014