The midterm slugfest for control of the U.S. Senate could have far-reaching effects on the economy. Tuesday's elections come just as U.S. growth has been showing consistent improvement, thanks in part to a congressional truce on budget fights. Previous such fights shut down the government and

Traders are pictured at their desks in front of the DAX board at the Frankfurt stock exchange October 29, 2014. Data from both sides of the Atlantic will give clues in the coming week on just how bad the euro zone economy is and just how sustainable is its U.S. counterpart. Europe offers a rate

China's roaring economy for years has pulled much of the rest of the world with it, soaking up oil, iron ore and other commodities from developing countries and autos and luxury goods from Europe. But its role as a global engine is fading as its economy slows - and many other nations, in the view

Two years and $1.7 trillion later, the Fed's latest round of bond-buying, or QE3, is officially over. What did it get us? Well, the best answer is what it didn't get us: a recession in 2013. Now the words "fiscal cliff," "sequester," and "debt ceiling" might be hazy memories from a time when

Five years after the Great Recession's official end, the recovery is still halting. It didn't have to be this way More than five years after the Great Recession officially ended in June 2009, a whopping 72 percent of Americans think the economy is still mired in a recession. And while they’re