The bulls have perpetrated a fantasy over the last few months. It went something like this: You can safely ignore the market declines on foreign bourses and the slowdown of economies in Asia, Europe and the emerging world because the American economy and U.S. stocks were an island of their own.

G20 nations including the United States and China said on Sunday they can overcome geo-political tensions and financial risks to achieve extra combined growth of 1.8 percent, adding trillions of dollars to the world economy. Head of the IMF Christine Legarde (C) shares a lighter moment with other

Business leaders are demanding the world’s richest nations start spending up on infrastructure and cutting red tape to help kick-start a global economy that is showing more worrying signs of sluggishness. The B20 group of business leaders, who are attending this week’s G20 summit of finance

Ten years ago, developing economies were catching up with developed ones remarkably quickly. It was an aberration NOWHERE are the consequences of different rates of growth clearer than on a trip up the Pearl River Delta in southern China. At the river’s mouth sits Hong Kong, a city in which average

SINGAPORE: Amid the ongoing debate on retirement adequacy, some industry experts are calling for greater adoption of employer-sponsored retirement plans. These plans will allow employees and employer to make voluntary contributions on top of what is set aside in the CPF. Swiss company Firmenich is