FT - World Economy

The global body confirms a judgment upholding complaints by the US, EU and Canada that Beijing violated fair trade rules by discriminating against imported car parts

Ministers, farmers and car manufacturers piled pressure on the EU's trade negotiators to stand firm in next week's round of talks in Geneva

US regulators said they would grant some leniency to certain market makers who sell stocks short, responding to pressure from fund managers and brokerages to clarify how new restrictions on the practice would work

The former vice-president urges the presidential candidates to take up the challenge to produce all of the US's electricity from zero-carbon sources within a decade

Financial institutions must swiftly implement far-reaching changes to their risk management, compensation schemes and other business practices to secure "political and social acceptance" after the credit crisis, the chairman of Deutsche Bank said on Thursday

Emerging economies must make the fight against inflation their 'top priority', the fund said, as it sharply raised its forecast for price increases in the developing world

Investors upset over falling share prices smashed windows of the Karachi Stock Exchange during a day of protests that led to scuffles between traders and investors

International agreements on climate change, food security and energy use may drift out of reach if next week's Geneva talks on liberalising world trade collapse, Peter Mandelson, the European Union's chief trade negotiator, said

South Africa's rising official inflation figures, which have sparked industrial action and sent the cost of borrowing to a five-year high, are overestimated and based...

Some of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds are seeking to scale back their exposure to the US dollar in a sign of global concern about the currency

As policymakers talk of raising yields in response to the food crisis, arable land is being degraded by pollution, erosion and poor farming techniques

History shows attempts to alter the Fed's role attract strong political resistance and serious policy consequences, write Sam Natapoff

Initiative includes a pledge that heavily polluting industries that export much of their product and those that face inter­national competition could receive free credits for up to 90 per cent of ­emissions

The price of natural gas in continental Europe is to double in the space of a year as a result of the rise in oil prices, according to a leading consultancy

It is almost a year since the US subprime crisis went global.The hope that the repricing of risk would be no more than a brief interruption has been disappointed. So where is the world economy now? Martin Wolf suggests some answers

Commentators often depict a shrinking middle class, with rising financial inequality. But, globally, this is simply not true, writes Jim O'Neill

Central banks in Asia's developing economies are being forced to raise interest rates as higher food and oil prices spill over into inflationary expectations

Seoul said it might introduce price controls in the most dramatic of initiatives being considered by Asian nations to fight inflation, or soften its impact on consumers

To resolve the Fannie and Freddie crisis, US policymakers need to address three issues in sequence: liquidity, capital and structure. The Treasury and the Fed are tackling the first issue head on

Ban Ki-Moon, secretary-general, tells Sudan it must co-operate fully with UN personnel in the country regardless of the international arrest warrant looming over its head of state