Emerging Market

Here in Chicago, where locals intuitively know a wink and a nod might have as many different meanings as Tom Skilling has descriptions for precipitation, we should well understand the difficulties faced by companies looking to do business in emerging...

WASHINGTON -- One fateful question for 2013 is this: What happens to globalization? For decades, growing volumes of cross-border trade and money flows have fueled strong economic growth. But something remarkable is happening; trade and international money...

My wife and I have always wanted to have a Roth IRA but were never eligible because of our income. As you know under the new law it is possible to convert our regular IRAs to the Roth’s. Most of our retirement assets are in 401-Ks and they cannot be...

CES: Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas. Global tech spending to reach $1 trillion in 2012, helped by robust growth in emerging markets for products including smartphones, tablets and ultrabooks....

Apple is rumored to be working on building a low cost version of the iPhone 4 that will feature 8 gigabytes of memory. Is any of this surprising? Not in the least, because Apple has already done this in the past with the iPhone 3GS....

China passed the U.S. as the largest market for personal computers in the second quarter of the year, according to new data from a research group. The shift marks the first time in history that China has passed the U.S. as the top consumer of PCs. PC...

Wall Street job losses. Analyst Meredith Whitney is estimating that securities firms may cut 10% of their workforce around the world over the next year and a half as the industry consolidates after the financial crisis. Emerging market optimism. Stock.......

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke on Friday was in Germany -- one of the centers of international opposition to the Fed's latest attempt to boost the U.S. economic recovery -- to offer a strong defense of the actions, arguing......

There are investment trouble spots all over the globe --from the turmoil in Ireland to the latest conflict between North and South Korea. But stock investors don’t seem worried about historically risky emerging markets –- and they’re pouring in...

They are coming to shop for name-brand clothes and souvenirs and they are carrying a lot of cash. Foreign visitors from countries with the fastest growing tourist markets to the U.S. are spending an average of $3,517 per trip, with......

How financial markets are reacting to news that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has resigned (all data as of about 10:45 a.m. PST): --- U.S. stocks have rallied modestly after opening slightly in the red. The Dow Jones industrial average was......

Four months after his ugly split with TCW Group, star L.A. bond fund manager Jeffrey Gundlach on Tuesday will launch his first mutual funds, hoping to lure some of the billions of dollars in retail funds he managed while at......