By Aileen Wang and Koh Gui Qing. BEIJING | Thu May 23, 2013 12:12am EDT. BEIJING (Reuters) - China's factory activity shrank for the first time in seven months in May as new orders fell, a preliminary survey of purchasing managers showed, adding to ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and his fellow policy makers, expressing concern that federal budget cuts are blunting the recovery, signaled little appetite for reducing record stimulus without what he called �real and sustainable� progress in ...

The nation's big cities are riding out the first years of the post-downturn era with plenty of company - boosting their population via a youth movement.

TOKYO | Wed May 22, 2013 11:53pm EDT. TOKYO May 23 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan said on Thursday that the bond market operation it conducted the same day was in line with Governor Haruhiko Kuroda's stance to conduct flexible market operations in ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh - A factory building that collapsed last month outside Dhaka, killing more than 1,000 workers in the deadliest disaster in the history of the garment industry, was constructed with substandard materials and in blatant disregard for building ...

The Tesla Model S was introduced at the 2013 North American International Auto Show. Stan Honda/Agence France-Presse - Getty ImagesThe Tesla Model S was introduced at the 2013 North American International Auto Show.

About 22 million Americans may lack enough home equity to move, keeping property listings tight and limiting sales as the housing market recovers, Zillow Inc. said.

A report Wednesday on U.S. sales of previously occupied homes in April may show the housing recovery has crossed a critical threshold.

Wed May 22, 2013 11:22am EDT. May 22 (Reuters) - The following is a list of scheduled U.S. agency bill sales from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for 2013.

WASHINGTON - US lawmakers agreed to a bill that would speed construction of a Canada-US oil pipeline and circumvent the need for President Barack Obama's approval for the $5 billion project.