ECONOMY

The British economy's third-quarter performance was the highest since the fourth quarter of 2016.

Imports climbed 1.5 percent to a record $266.6 billion in August, led by an influx of telecommunications equipment and clothing.

A study has found that more than a million low-income households live in areas known as "food deserts", where access to good quality food is likely to be a challenge.

Investors fear a constellation of concerns from rising interest rates, intensifying tensions over trade, a slowdown in China and the prospect that U.S. corporate earnings growth will soon stall.

Brexit-related increase in trade costs will make it harder to get hold of foods that are critical components of healthy diets and chronic-disease prevention.

May faces growing dissent and vitriol from her political opponents in her own Conservative Party.

The hard Brexit wheels are coming off. We know it, the EU knows it, May knows it.

The European Commission issued a sharp rebuke of Italy's budget, which targets a 2.4 percent deficit for next year.

Embattled Theresa May enrages Tory MPs as divorce talks between Britain and the EU stall on the issue of the Irish border.

Analysts told the International Business Times that China has more policy options up its sleeves

Analysts warn the 25 percent tariffs from 2019, could slow Chinese growth, raise U.S. inflation and put more downward pressure on emerging markets.

Prime Minister Theresa May says "a border in the Irish Sea" was unacceptable.

A decade ago shares were trading at around $141. They are now below the $1 benchmark.

Reports overnight in London that a deal on the Northern Ireland border, the last missing piece of a withdrawal agreement, was close.

Reported meeting will take place during the G-20 summit in Argentina in late November.

Losses on Wall Street rip through Asian financial markets amid fears about interest rates and trade tariffs.

South Korea move to lift sanctions is aimed at encouraging North Korea down the path of denuclearization.

Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad warned of new taxes to pay debts following scandal-tainted rule of Najib Razak.

Leaders of Europe's largest economy warn no trade deal would be a "disaster" for businesses on both sides of the English Channel.

Two Americans won the Nobel Prize for studying pressing issues facing the global economy: how to deal with pollution and climate change and how to foster the innovation needed to tackle such problems.

The September gain extended an 8½-year streak of monthly job growth with millions of Americans having gone back to work since the Great Recession.

Risks range from trade tensions and a still unresolved Brexit, higher oil prices and dangerous reform reversals in Italy.

Annual losses from disasters like earthquakes, tsunamis and typhoons average $250 billion to $300 billion.

Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to rewrite Nafta — or get rid of it.

Overall, neither proposal is very attractive from an economic point of view.

South America's second-largest economy battered by a run on the Argentine peso amid double-digit inflation.

The effect on China would be cushioned by diverting those products to other export markets, say the European Central Bank.

World Bank: War, isolation, and internal rivalries has left Gaza in a crippling economic state and exacerbated the human distress.

Chinese government accused the Trump administration in a report of "trade bullyism" and of preaching "economic hegemony."