Economy

News Hour: Venezuela on Tuesday said private and public companies will be obliged to let their workers be reassigned to grow crops, in a dramatic move in the middle of the country’s crippling economic crisis, reports...

News Hour: Tokyo stocks rallied at the open on Wednesday, rebounding after three straight sessions of losses as investors await the outcome of a US Federal Reserve meeting, reports BSS. The US central bank, which concludes...

News Hour: Egypt has asked the International Monetary Fund for financial support as it struggles to strengthen its economy, the IMF said on Tuesday, reports BSS. The Fund plans to send a staff team to the...

News Hour: In August 2015, the AIIB Preparations Management Co. Ltd issued a notice on its website stating unequivocally that it had never granted any authorization to any legal person, organization or individual to design, coin...

News Hour: Despite a pick-up in domestic consumption, GDP growth slowed in Q1 because of slower inventory build-up, according to the July edition of the World Bank’s Turkey Regular Economic Brief*, issued today in Ankara. The...

News Hour: Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ)  announced that Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Vogue International, a privately held company focused on the marketing, development and distribution of...

News Hour: Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ)  announced that Louise Mehrotra, Vice President of Investor Relations for Johnson & Johnson, will retire in January 2017, after a transition period with her successor. Louise first joined the...

News Hour: Colombia’s production of coca, the plant used to make cocaine, surged 39 percent last year, the government said on Thursday, citing UN data, reports BSS. “The most recent measure of coca production in this...

News Hour: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi heads to Africa on Thursday, seeking to boost his country’s economic influence in a region long dominated by rival Asian power China, reports BSS. India has been working to...

News Hour: North Korea was to convene a session of its legislative assembly on Wednesday, with observers looking for more details to emerge of a new economic plan announced at a rare party congress in May,...