Call it Hummergate. High-profile labor leader Elba Esther Gordillo has sparked outrage after lavishing 59 Hummer H3 SUVs on top union officials at a time when Mexico is...

The Federal Reserve says the country sank deeper into an economic rut during the early fall.

Government data show retail sales fell off a cliff in September, plunging by the largest amount in two years. Worried consumers shunned the malls and auto showrooms in...

Government data show retail sales fell off a cliff in September, plunging by the largest amount in two years. Worried consumers shunned the malls and auto showrooms in...

The government releases a raft of data today on the state of the economy _ the Commerce Department reports on August business inventories and retail sales for...

ITALY MOVED to inject liquidity into its financial system yesterday, offering to guarantee new bank bonds, help banks seek refinancing and provide as much cash as...

Perhaps it’s appropriate that it is on Columbus Day that the Old World appears to be getting into gear. All I can say is wow. What a day in Europe.

A group of leading German economic think tanks said Tuesday that Europe’s largest economy is on the “brink of a recession” and have scaled back their...

The NHL is “still in growth mode” despite the economic downturn, commissioner Gary Bettman said Monday, noting that ticket sales have increased this...

People go bankrupt all the time. Companies like Lehman do, too. But countries? How many of us have ever heard that a COUNTRY announced ‘National...

In the midst of the financial turmoil that has swept ominously across North America and Europe, news how this may affect Latin American economies – traditionally so...

Republican John McCain vowed Sunday to “whip” Democratic rival Barack Obama’s “you-know-what” when the two presidential candidates meet...

A top adviser to Republican John McCain said Sunday the presidential hopeful is weighing new economic proposals to help the nation weather the financial crisis.

Today, Pakistan is burning. From terrorism to economic problems, our inability to make good decisions about our leaders has set our nation on fire. While there is much...

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Friday that the country will not cut budgets allocated for infrastructure programs despite the current financial...

So, what do you think?

IF ANALOGIES with the Great Depression are scary for Americans, they are hardly less so for Latin Americans. Within a few years of the 1929 stockmarket crash, 16...

he UK government is proposing to give people more influence over the way local council budgets in England are spent - an idea that has been around for some time in...

In his bid to become the next governor of Missouri, Rep. Kenny Hulshof survived a bitter primary that at one point saw the candidates bashing each other for supporting...

Bretton Woods was the system of global financial management set up at the end of the second World War to ensure the interests of capital did not smother wider social...