Economy News

By Meagan Clark - Manufacturing is the lifeblood of the global economy and indeed making a comeback, but there is a lot the U.S. should do to propel the industry forward, Jay...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 25, 2014

By Patricia Rey Mallén - Brazil and the European Union want to get a little bit closer. EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso received Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff on...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 25, 2014

By Angelo Young - The European Commission released Tuesday its latest regional economic GDPO forecast, lauding continued economic recovery for the region. The executive body of the...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 25, 2014

By Lisa Mahapatra - U.S. home prices hit rock bottom in March 2012, when the Case-Shiller U.S. average fell nearly 35 percent from it’s peak in June 2006. A little over a year and...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 25, 2014

By Mike Obel - The values of most currencies in the so-called frontier markets, which include Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Nigeria, are "significantly overvalued," Bank of America...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 25, 2014

By Patricia Rey Mallén - MEXICO CITY -- The arrest of drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera, “El Chapo,” the most wanted criminal in the world, has set Mexico into a frenzy. The capture,...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 25, 2014

By Kathleen Caulderwood - At the latest gathering of the G20, a group of 19 major economies plus the European Union, leaders of the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 25, 2014

By Angelo Young - Plug-in electric vehicles make up a sliver of total vehicle sales worldwide, but EV advocates believe you have to start somewhere and that battery-storage...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 24, 2014

By Mike Obel - The U.S. government owns, as of 2012, more than 300,000 buildings, the General Services Administration (GSA) says. The GSA, in a recent report, said that three...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 24, 2014

By Angelo Young - Mexico is almost there, at least when it comes to building cars. Twenty years after the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the third-largest...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 22, 2014

By Sophie Song - Indonesia’s Internet retail business is projected to have a meteoric rise in the next two years, and become a $10 billion industry, from just $1 billion to $3...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 21, 2014

By Nat Rudarakanchana - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is trying to expand the definition of a corporate whistle-blower to boost protections for potential...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 21, 2014

By Moran Zhang -The annual meeting of China’s parliament, the National People’s Congress, will convene on March 5. As the first NPC meeting after the important Third Plenary...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 21, 2014

By Sneha Shankar - India’s private-sector airlines have come together to ask for a ban on AirAsia’s (OTCMKTS:AIABF) entry into the Indian market, which is expected to happen this...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 21, 2014

By Sneha Shankar - U.S. and Australia are planning to sign an agreement to battle tax evasion and to prevent companies from shifting their income to low-tax countries by sharing...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 21, 2014

By Meagan Clark - The violent political uprising in Ukraine is hurting the country’s bond market and currency, as doubts flood the region about whether Russia will continue to...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 20, 2014

By Christopher Harress - When a Nobel Prize-winning economist suggests that your country may be going through a housing bubble, you tend to take notice, but when the former deputy...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 20, 2014

By Nat Rudarakanchana - A key gauge of Chinese manufacturing activity slipped further in February, sparking cautious tones from economists worried about economic slowdown in the...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 20, 2014

Investing.com - Private sector activity in the euro zone eased in February, according to data released on Thursday, but output growth remained close to the previous month’s...

• ByInvesting.com•Feb 20, 2014

By Kathleen Caulderwood - The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN) and the deputy U.S. attorney general have given the nation’s banks a green light...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 19, 2014

By Meagan Clark - A team of Stanford University researchers have developed a state-by-state plan for the U.S. to switch to 80 percent renewable energy sources by 2030 and nearly...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 19, 2014

By Meagan Clark - When protesters in Kiev, Ukraine, set fire to their mattresses, tents and other belongings early Wednesday to fend off police, dozens of people died and hundreds...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 19, 2014

By Kathleen Caulderwood - The $3.3 billion private equity funding raised last year for African ventures is the highest annual amount since 2007 and represents a 136 percent...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 19, 2014

By Sneha Shankar - A survey of fund managers by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, released on Wednesday, said that investors are more confident about developed economies than emerging...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 19, 2014

Investing.com -The U.K. unemployment rate unexpectedly ticked up to 7.2% in the three months to December, according to data released on Wednesday, reinforcing the view that the...

• ByInvesting.com•Feb 19, 2014

By Meagan Clark - Senior government officials inaccurately portrayed the habitat range of an endangered beetle living along the proposed Keystone XL pipeline path and retaliated...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 18, 2014

By Angelo Young -European new-auto sales figures for the first month of the year are out. They show a fifth consecutive monthly increase and first January increase since 2010....

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 18, 2014

By Kathleen Caulderwood - China has spent nearly $100 billion in African projects over the last decade – and Jane Goodall is not impressed. In an interview with Agence...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 18, 2014

By Sophie Song - Singapore has overtaken Switzerland, emerging as the world’s fastest growing wealth management center, but banks in the Southeast Asian nation have a long way to...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 18, 2014

By Moran Zhang - The amount of debt China owes foreign lenders is rising at a rapid pace, but the level of China’s external borrowing is still low, and claims that the world’s...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 18, 2014

By Sneha Shankar - Britain’s Serious Fraud Office said on Monday that it has launched criminal proceedings against three former employees of Barclays (NYSE:BCS), charging them with...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 18, 2014

By Arjun Kashyap - The Bank of Japan, or BoJ, announced in its monetary policy statement Tuesday that it would continue to expand its monetary base at the current annual rate,...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 17, 2014

By Dennis Lynch - Recent trends suggest that the Chinese government is distancing itself from foreign economists in the wake of skepticism about the country's debt issues, in more...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 17, 2014

By Sophie Song - China has always been ambitious in engineering. More than 2,000 years after the first emperor built the Great Wall, modern Chinese are now planning to build the...

• ByInternational Business Times•Feb 17, 2014

Investing.com - The rate of economic growth in Germany is likely to gain momentum in the first quarter after experiencing an upswing in the winter months, the country's central...

• ByInvesting.com•Feb 17, 2014
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