Livia Umbelino, 32, trained as a social worker in her native Rio de Janeiro, learning the methods, skills and responsibilities of supporting and...
After a spell of soaring prices and steep interest rates, Christine Lagarde this week allowed herself a moment of optimism.
Whisper it — sterling may be in for a period of decent appreciation. This may sound like a disputable statement following many years in the...
The last day of US Secretary Janet Yellen’s trip to China coincided with the strongest retort yet from Beijing officials over her claims that...
As the world grapples to combat climate change, scientists agree that protecting what remains of the Earth’s vast rainforests is a key priority....
In the coming years, Satoaki Kanoh needs to replace almost a dozen ageing machines at his Tokyo-based maker of acrylic panels, a major undertaking...
The US government’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple draws on the watershed 1998 case that broke Microsoft’s stranglehold on desktop software,...
In late 1989, no person better symbolised Japan’s postwar rise to economic superpower than Akio Morita, Sony’s co-founder, who stunned the world...
When plans for the Oceanwide Plaza development were unveiled in 2015, it was billed as a gleaming symbol of downtown Los Angeles’ renaissance.
An engine of world growth for 20 years, the largest consumer of commodities and world's number two economy has somehow slipped into "alternative...
In October, Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun was asked how fast Boeing could raise output of its best-selling 737 MAX after a spate of quality snags. He was...
Chinese authorities’ promise of “forceful” measures last week was their most vocal attempt yet to halt a stock market sell-off that has wiped...
The night before China’s civil service exam, Melody Zhang anxiously paced up and down the corridor of her dormitory, rehearsing her answers. Only...
Once every decade or so the computing world finds itself on the cusp of a revolution.
Sterling just had its best year against the dollar since 2017, yet a weakening economy and election uncertainty make a repeat performance unlikely.
As a strong year in U.S. stocks comes to a close, fund managers face a potentially consequential choice in 2024: stick with the few massive growth...
Pakistan, one of the world’s poorest nations, thought it had secured natural gas to fuel its economy. Commodities firms had other ideas.
Like many parents, I used to try disciplining badly-behaved children in the run-up to Christmas by telling them they would receive no presents if...
There was lots of humming and huffing in the Kirk household this week after gold prices hit a record high last Friday. Not that I can afford even...
Something weird is happening in America. GDP growth for Q3 was just revised up from an already scorching 4.9 per cent to 5.2 per cent, more...
What if the government made companies hand a slice of their profits to workers? In Britain and America, the question is about as live as the pigeon...
In the past year, Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, has become the embodiment of a contradiction at the heart of artificial intelligence....
What makes a project “green”? In cases such as wind farms, the answer is obvious. Other definitions can be woolly. A bank might extend climate...
The euro zone appears to be in the middle of another recession but worries about whether definitive growth figures due early next year will have a...
There are 358 days until the 2024 US presidential election. And if the political strategist James Carville was right that “it’s the economy,...
A milestone move by the European Central Bank toward launching a digital euro within a few years means the time has come for the newest incarnation...
The great government bond slump of 2023 is reaching the point where bankers and investors are shuffling in their seats and eyeing each other...
It doesn’t require a close examination of economic statistics to be aware that US incomes have far outstripped those in Britain in recent years. A...
Pakistan has long grappled with the challenge of implementing effective tobacco control measures. Recently, numerous prominent civil society groups...
Global financial regulators are preparing a clampdown on so-called shadow banking as they confront the unintended consequences of previous waves...
The green energy boom is facing new headwinds. Falling costs, cheap capital and supportive politicians helped propel a headlong rush into renewable...
Argentina and the International Monetary Fund share a rocky history spanning seven decades - and it looks as if things could get worse.
Policymakers in Tokyo believe China’s deepening economic woes could hit Japan’s fragile recovery, especially if Beijing fails to shore up demand...
The Asian Development Bank's Trade and Supply Chain Finance Program plays a crucial role in Pakistan by addressing economic challenges, such as...
When Venezuela's economy was showing tentative signs of recovery in 2020, Enrique Perrella thought it was time to open a cafe in eastern Caracas...
Erin Yao would like to take street dance classes and travel, activities she could not do during three years of COVID-19 restrictions in China.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell last week did little to dissuade markets from the “higher for longer” mantra for rates that has driven up...
The U.S. Federal Reserve is likely done raising interest rates, according to a strong majority of economists polled by Reuters, and a slight...
China's unexpectedly poor export performance as revealed last week is still largely down to wider economic headwinds. But underlying trade and...
The slide in US bank stocks this week appeared to catch traders in the options market by surprise, data shows, raising questions over whether bank...
A helping hand from China saw Argentina avert a default with the International Monetary Fund for the second time in 30 days, as the cash-strapped...
Drought is expected to send global wheat stockpiles for major exporters to the lowest levels in more than a decade, a Reuters analysis shows, a...
UK water companies are confronting a financial crisis so dire that the government briefly considered a partial nationalization. One cause of the...
The cost of serving up a sandwich with a cup of coffee has hit the roof across Australia’s vaunted cafes, squeezing profits and forcing a wave of...
The launch of social media app Threads as a competitor to Twitter is a game-changer. Meta, which also owns Facebook and Instagram, launched the new...
The flood of smuggled cigarettes that hit Pakistan after the stellar tax hike brought by a minibudget a few months ago continues to surge, allowing...
Monetary policy, Milton Friedman said, acts on the economy with long and variable lags. Just as important for investors is that the reverse is also...
It seems like Canada has been in the news for all the wrong reasons lately. The Bank of Canada was blamed for tanking global bond markets earlier...
In the 16 years that Mike Zaffaroni has helmed Liberty Landscape Supply in north-east Florida, no stretch proved quite as difficult as last year.
Five months after China’s president Xi Jinping declared victory over the pandemic and relaxed stringent social controls, new data this week...
