Sometimes external forces in the economy throw the supply and demand for a product or service out of whack. Trade quotas are a common and powerful example of one such external force. One way ...

Putting people into sleep mode is a sci-fi concept that's a lot closer to becoming real than you might think. Erin Belback is part of an ongoing human trial backed by NASA that aims to replicate the ...

SINGAPORE: A new index launched by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) on Tuesday (Oct 14) will allow workers to discover firms that have a good track record of supporting career growth. The Singapore ...

The gold standard for economics is the idyllic state of perfect competition. This idyllic state occurs when there are enough buyers, sellers, workers and companies, and where economies of scale can be ...

The Chancellor may have to find up to £30billion in tax rises or spending cuts in the Autumn Budget. The Office for Budget Responsibility is expected to downgrade its forecasts for future productivity ...

How much do financial incentives and other means of support influence the decision to have children, or how many to have? In China, the connection appears weak. Despite being the country’s top ...

TOKYO :The Bank of Japan can raise interest rates if prospects of durably meeting its 2 per cent inflation target improve, but would struggle to justify doing so this year given weak signs in the ...

September brought good news for borrowers. The Federal Reserve conducted its first rate cut of the year, making the cost of borrowing less expensive. While a range of factors influence home equity ...

Some 13 million people over State Pension age will find out how much their regular payments will rise next April over a month before Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirms the annual uprating during the ...

Measuring The Backlash: How did men react to recent American social movements? 58% feel politicians talk too much about wokeness. 38% felt #MeToo was beneficial to society. 42% felt that the Black ...

Johannesburg, South Africa – Bloomberg Index Services Limited (Bloomberg Indices) has been selected to calculate and publish the official fallback rates for the Johannesburg Interbank Average Rate ...