Emerging Markets
Earthquake Kills 157, Injures 5,700 In China’s Sichuan Province
China's worst earthquake in three years on Saturday killed at least 157 people and injured more than 5,700, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said. The magnitude 6.6 quake hit a remote mountainous area ...
Climate Change Winner: Warming Could Make Montana Wine Region
Climate change warnings tend to focus on the losers, but western Montana would come up a winery winner, according to a new scientific analysis of temperature trends. "Winter temperatures have been a ...
Brazil To See Weaker Growth: IMF
Brazil and other Latin American countries need to realize their economic boom could be over because of cooler global demand for their minerals and farm goods, International Monetary Fund officials ...China Moves to Curb Money Laundering; Banks Must Rate ‘Dirty’ Clients
Chinese banks must rate their clients' risk of criminal conduct on a scale of 1-5 as part of the central bank's moves to curb money laundering and fraudulent transactions estimated at hundreds of ...
China Slowdown Struggling to Channel Money into Real Economy
A credit boom in China failed to keep economic recovery on track in the first quarter, suggesting the cash sloshing around the economy is not yielding the desired effect of stoking growth and could ...Moody’s Affirms China Rating, Lowers Outlook After Fitch Downgrade
Moody's Investors Service on Tuesday affirmed China's government's bond rating of Aa3 but cut the outlook to stable from positive, the second pessimistic revision by a foreign ratings agency this ...
Economic Indicators For Brazil (2010-2013)
With a gross domestic product of $2.42 trillion, Brazil is already the world's sixth largest economy—bigger than the UK. A diversity of trading partners, as well as a mix of agriculture, raw ...