Following new figures from Beijing that showed that the Chinese economy grew at its slowest rate in a quarter of a century in 2015, the International Monetary Fund cut its global growth forecasts for the third time in less than a year on Tuesday.   A sharp slowdown in China trade and weak...

Igniting hopes that Beijing would cushion the slowdown with more stimulus policies following revelation of China's economy which grew at its weakest pace in a quarter of a century last year, there were rallies on the country's rollercoaster share markets.   Capping a tumultuous year that...

By 2020, advances in technology will reduce the number of world’s jobs by the 5 million - such data are quoted in the report of the World Economic Forum (WEF) "The Future of Jobs", which analyzes the economies of the developed countries, the countries - participants of the Association of Southeast...

Only 272 refugees out of planned 160 thousand were transported from Turkey and Greece to other countries, said head of the European Commission. He also stressed the need to reform the Dublin agreement. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Friday, January 15, that the EU's...

EU judges have recently ruled that during working hours, all mails – including even private messages sent via that are sent by employees can be seen by employers in the European Union.     A Romanian employer firm that read a worker’s Yahoo Messenger chats sent while he was at work...

As oil prices fell back below $30 global stocks kept alive concerns about global growth as world stocks were set for a third straight week of losses on Friday and commodity currencies took another drubbing.   While Asian shares skidded to 3-1/2 year lows, European stocks fell more than 1...

A Reuters poll of economists predicts that a more subdued outlook for both the U.S. and world economies would force the Federal Reserve to consider raise of interest rates only three times this year.   With a very low unemployment rate and a solid pace of private hiring, the world's largest...

The stock market of China rose across the board following a suspension of a “breaker mechanism”. According to last week’s closing reports, China’s stock market witnessed a last moment upward swing, whereby it ended at a two percent higher rate and stayed put in “positive territory”. In the midst of...

America’s long expected go-to-market of gas has finally took place: the first tanker with US liquefied natural gas (LNG) will be exported before the of the week. Today, US starts loading Energy Atlantic tanker with LNG. The procedure takes place at the Sabine Pass terminal on the Gulf Coast....