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While the MDGs were narrow in their focus (poverty), and aimed primarily at what donors could do, and while they are hardly known outside global development circles, they have achieved something remarkable in the development community entrenching the idea of measuring progress...

Xi, on his first state visit to the US, will be hosted at the White House for a banquet on Friday. “I indicated that it has to stop”, Obama said. But he added warily: “The question now is, are words followed by actions?”

The Dow Jones closed down 65.21 points at 16,674, while the S&P 500 fell 5 points to 1,990.

Modi began his tour of Silicon valley with an interaction with the Indian-American community at the Imperial Ballroom of Hotel Fairmont here.

‘A neutral 90-day bank bill rate is now under 3.5%’.

The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi will be heading to Silicon Valley this weekend to meet with tech executives about how best to capitalize on the internet revolution going on there.

Though the Fed didn’t raise rates this month, Heidi Richardson explains how to potentially prepare your bond portfolio for the rate regime change. The Fed has been reluctant to shake the boat in the wake of the financial crisis, fearing it could scare off investors and stun...

The Reserve Bank today published a report detailing how it estimates New Zealand’s neutral interest rate. The time for a further 25-bps rate cut is appropriate now.

S&P 500 e-minis were down 15.5 points, or 0.8 percent, with 230,212 contracts traded. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 113.35 points, or 0.7 percent, to 16,314.67. Signs of weak growth overseas won’t prove large enough to have a significant impact on policy, the...

The agreements include orders and commitments for 300 Boeing narrowbody and widebody aircraft and expanded collaboration between Boeing and China’s commercial aviation industry.

The meeting was scheduled with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. Ignoring suggestions from some quarters that New Delhi should temper its campaign and let the membership of the club come when it becomes...

“The MPC has decided unanimously to keep the repurchase rate unchanged for now at 6% per annum”.

Cisco and Inspur will jointly invest $100 million in the project. The joint venture was one of several deals announced by US companies this week during the visit of Chinese President Xi Jingping’s to the United States that highlight how attractive the China market is to...

Gold fell from one-month highs on Friday after Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen kept the door open to an increase in USA interest rates this year, sparking a dollar rally, while palladium was on track for its biggest weekly rise in nearly four years.

When Thursday dawns here, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to launch a full day of economic diplomacy, cajoling titans of industry, finance and media to invest in his hallmark “Make-in-India” programme.