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Gold dropped from its highest in a month on Friday, giving back some of its sharp overnight gains, as the dollar rallied on an assurance from Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen that the USA central bank would begin raising rates this year. Gold prices were also falling because...

Where does China go from here? For greater accomplishments, the US role will be to determine the price of status, and the Chinese role will be to determine whether that price is worth paying. This expectation is based on a conditional convergence framework that relies on data...

Oil prices fell today after the US Federal Reserve kept its main interest rate on hold and following a volatile week for crude.

The European and USA markets ended firmly in the red and the Asian bourses figure to open in similar fashion.

Local area unemployment data are not seasonally adjusted. The USA preliminary rate for August was 5.1 percent, down 0.2 percent from July.

So this “transition” is as significant – in a long-term sense – as any global economic event of the past 30 years.

Now that Trump and Fiorina are No. 1 and No. 2 in a recent poll – oy! – it’s worth taking a closer look at their business records. Prior to 2012, it was always “the silver medalist” in the previous presidential primary contest who typically would...

If Vice President Joe Biden chooses to dive into the presidential battle, he’s prone to look at a increase from his man Catholics in Iowa.

The Caixin Flash China manufacturing purchasing manager’s index (PMI) fell further to 47 in September from 47.3 in August (see chart 1), coming in below expectations. Levels below 50 signify a contraction. “Overall, the fundamentals are good”, said Dr. He Fan,...

“China shares were up for the third day on the trot, a running streak unseen for a month thanks to optimism surrounding President Xi’s state visit to the USA”, said Mike Van Dulken, analysts at Accendo Markets.

George cited Trump’s allegations that Fiorina had poorly run Hewlett-Packard as CEO, adding that the Wall Street Journal had pointed out that the stock price dropped more than 50 percent on her watch, and that the merger with Compaq had also failed.

US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were trading down $1.55, or 3.3 percent, at $45.35 a barrel.

The U.S. Supreme Court in King v. This will force more people into the Obamacare health insurance marketplace and will lead to more people obtaining government subsidies. Meanwhile, other out-of-pocket costs are growing too.

That dilemma was compounded by “the (domestic) combination of sharply slowing growth and rising inflation“, bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago told a news conference after it cut its 2015 economic growth forecast to 1.5 percent from 2.0 percent.

Korea’s benchmark Kospi index is up 0.32 percent at 1,970 points.