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Looking outside the United States can sometimes reveal other companies that offer the same stability, with the added benefit of global diversification if a U.S.-specific problem develops.
Rio Tinto was added to the Merrill Lynch's first-quarter Top 10 EMEA Ideas List as an Underperform-rated stock.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has release a new report that projects China’s impacts of a slowing trade and agriculture growth.
Air cargo volume declined by 0.9% year-over-year in November, the first time monthly volume has fallen in two and a half years, according to WorldACD Market Data.
In a supplement published Thursday to its September report on the development outlook for the region, the Asia Development Bank has maintained growth projections of 5.8% for 2015 and 6.0% for 2016.
The International Monetary Fund on Monday added China's currency, the renminbi, to the basket of official world reserve currencies.
In December of this year, the world's second-most populous country will surpass the United States in the number of Internet users and trail only China.
So-called hedged ETFs take all or most of the currency risk out of the equation. They simply trade in dollars and track the raw underlying equity market indexes on which they are based.
The $17 billion merger between Finland's Nokia and France's Alcatel-Lucent received conditional approval Monday morning from China's Ministry of Commerce.
ThinkstockSingapore Airlines and Airbus are teaming up to create the world’s longest non-stop flight beginning in 2018. The flight will originate in the city-state and fly nonstop some 8,700...
Is demand picking up, is supply drying up or is something else going on to drive up the price of crude oil?
Worldwide investment in renewable energy and smart-energy technologies totaled $70 billion in the third quarter of 2015.
Courtesy Maersk LineThe reading on international trade, known as the U.S. trade deficit to those who have been watching the reading since the 1980s and 1990s, came in at -$48.3 billion in the month...
Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund has taken paper losses of up to $12 billion in the third quarter as a result of the Volkswagen scandal and other issues.
Putin’s tough talk and muscle-flexing have ratcheted up fears of what the Russian bear might do next, and that is driving sales of a Lockheed missile system.