Like many things, there may be a time and a place for using subsidies. But they need to be better targeted. And, often, there will be better alternatives. Alternatives that do a better job of protecting the poor.

BEIJING (Kevin Yao and Aileen Wang) – China stormed back to post a hefty trade surplus in April as exports hit a record while imports eased more...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - When oil prices fell below $120 a barrel in early New York trade last Thursday, a few big companies that are major oil consumers ...

HANOI - Finance ministers of China, Japan and South Korea are mindful of the challenges from inflation, rising commodity prices and the increasing...

he University of Texas Investment Management Co., the second-largest U.S. academic endowment, took delivery of almost $1 billion in gold bullion and i...

The need for careful design of economic policies at the national level, and coordination at the global level, may be as important today as they were at the peak of the crisis two years ago.

WASHINGTON: The U.S. economy is recovering at such a sluggish pace that the Federal Reserve needs to keep an easy monetary policy in place while t...

WASHINGTON (By Mark Felsenthal and Glenn Somerville) - Some Federal Reserve officials last month believed they would have to hold to an easy monet...

As spring dawns, the economy's green shoots have been trampled once again, first by the economic fallout from Japan's tsunami, and again by rising worldwide commodity prices.

BEIJING — China reported a surprise trade deficit in February as surging prices for oil and other commodities pushed up its import bill. February...

Latin America has enjoyed tremendous economic dynamism and a rising quality of life in recent years. But, faced with new challenges, the question is: how best to sustain this progress?

The crass ignorance of the realities in the Middle East and the exploitation of that ignorance by speculators compounded by the mediatization of the...

The cost of crucial goods are rising, and consumers are about to feel the pinch. Amid indications of improvement in the American economy, a host o...

Higher food and energy prices pushed up the consumer price index for January according to government figures released today. The index, the most clos...

Shoppers can expect food prices to increase this year. Despite promising signs of economic recovery, many businesses are still struggling with the do...

As much as we yearn personally for democracy in places like Saudi Arabia, a major political disruption there would add a fast and significant premium to an oil price quickly racing out of control.

Krugman is right that soaring food prices have contributed to Middle East troubles. But the major point of the piece unfortunately concentrates on weather events as the fundamental cause.

Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Bets by hedge funds and large speculators on further gains in commodity prices are holding near their highest level in more than...

Global oil prices could exceed $110 a barrel if political unrest in Egypt continues, a member of Kuwait's Supreme Petroleum Council said on Sunday. ...