Short of cash, wealthy San Francisco suburb declares fiscal emergency

The San Francisco suburb of Moraga seems as far as one could get from the financial pressures that have battered big cities like Detroit...

Taking on Alibaba, Amazon launches Prime Now in Singapore

  Amazon.com Inc launched its two-hour delivery service in Singapore on Thursday, marking the e-commerce giant's push into popul...

Can extreme poverty ever be eradicated? - The Economist

Poverty rates have fallen faster in the past 30 years than at any other time on record. The UN wants extreme poverty to disappear by 203...

China June trade beats expectations on robust demand, but headwinds eyed

China posted stronger-than-expected June trade figures on Thursday, bolstered by firm global demand for Chinese goods and robust appetit...

Where Chinese millionaires want to move

Chinese millionaires are warming up to Canada and cooling on Britain. But they're still red-hot for the United States. That...

How to protect your finances during a slowdown

As reports of job losses, slowing demand and a liquidity crisis trickled in a couple of weeks ago, the stock market slipped. It recovered sh...

How the City Hurts Your Brain

The city has always been an engine of intellectual life, from the 18th-century coffeehouses of London, where citizens gathered to discu...

Reno entrepreneurs praise low costs, but cite capital and talent challenges

Starting a tech company in Silicon Valley is very, very hard, and conventional wisdom holds that doing so elsewhere would be even more di...

They flaunt their wealth on Instagram - Meet India's uber-rich who love to do it.

Who is Muskaan Sodhi?  But Sodhi, 32, belongs to a different genre - the twentysomething (some of them are a bit older) clan of bold,...