The International Monetary Fund has a "Plan B" for proceeding with reforms giving greater powers to developing countries even though the U.S. Congress hasn't approved them, but it is not ready to take that route yet, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said Thursday. Published April 10, 2014
Russia, China and other major developing countries — angry about the stalemate on Capitol Hill that has blocked approval of a reform plan that would give them a bigger voting share at the International Monetary Fund — are pushing to go ahead with the reforms without waiting for the United States. Published April 6, 2014
American businesses created another 192,000 jobs last month and more than a half million workers surged back into the labor force to find jobs amid signs of a rebound in hiring after a long, cold winter, the Labor Department reported Friday. Published April 4, 2014
Although the United States has ruled out open military conflict in response to Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, some see growing risks that the two former superpower rivals could sink into a kind of economic Cold War. Published March 31, 2014
Russia is paying a heavy price for its annexation of Crimea, with its financial markets crashing, economic growth falling, and foreign investors and citizens pulling money out of the country at a frenetic pace. Published March 24, 2014
One of the best ways to spark stronger growth in the economy, economists say, is to increase immigration. Published March 19, 2014
The potential annual growth rate in the U.S. has downshifted because of an aging population, reduced immigration, growing income inequality and other factors. Published March 19, 2014
The Federal Reserve Wednesday said it will continue easing its stimulus program for the economy, cutting its purchases of U.S. Treasury and mortgage bonds by another $10 billion a month. Published March 19, 2014
The crisis in Ukraine has unexpectedly breathed new life in the Obama administration's stalled efforts to pass legislation reforming the International Monetary Fund in Congress this year. Published March 12, 2014
Unemployment ticked up to 6.7 percent last month despite a better-than-expected increase of 175,000 jobs that defied a spate of severe winter weather. the Labor Department reported Friday. Published March 7, 2014
The U.S. District Court in Manhattan on Tuesday handed Chevron Corp. a major victory in its decades-long battle over pollution in the Amazon rain forest, declaring an Ecuadorean court ruling unenforceable in the U.S. Published March 4, 2014
Global markets swooned Monday as Russian soldiers secured control over Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, while the threat of trade sanctions against Moscow from the West over the crisis sent oil prices soaring and the ruble plummeting. Published March 3, 2014
Russia is showing the world that it does things in a big way at the Sochi Olympics. Now, at the opposite end of the vast country, Russia is aiming to be the next big player in the global shale oil revolution. Published February 18, 2014
Comcast Corp.'s blockbuster $45.2 billion deal to acquire top rival Time Warner Cable will further transform the cable landscape, creating the first national cable network and presenting new challenges for rivals, regulators and viewers from Los Angeles to New York City. Published February 13, 2014
Extremely cold and snowy weather inhibited America’s shoppers last month, causing a 0.4 percent drop in retail sales, and the Christmas selling season was poorer than previously reported, the Census Bureau reported on Thursday. Published February 13, 2014
Janet Yellen, in her first appearance before Congress as the new chair of the Federal Reserve, sparked a major rally in global financial markets Tuesday by pledging to stick with her predecessor Ben S. Bernanke’s plan to gradually end the easy-money policies put in place during the recession. Published February 11, 2014
The nation's unemployment rate slipped to 6.6 percent last month as employers added a tepid 113,000 new jobs, the Labor Department reported Friday. Published February 9, 2014
The nation's unemployment rate slipped to 6.6 percent last month as employers added a tepid 113,000 new jobs, the Labor Department reported Friday. Published February 7, 2014
Moody's Investors Service, one of Wall Street's three top credit raters, said Wednesday that it expects the U.S. Treasury to keep paying its debts on time even though it will run out of borrowing authority on Friday. Published February 5, 2014
Henry M. Paulson Jr., the financial firefighter stationed at the epicenter of the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, worries that the nation is headed for another crisis because political leaders failed to learn critical lessons from the last one from 2008. Published February 4, 2014
