The world's longest-reigning monarch, Thailand's King Bhumibol, is now its richest royal.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce today voiced strong opposition to proposed accounting rule changes that it says would open the door to lawsuit abuse by trial lawyers and would not provide clear or useful new information to investors.

The guidance is intended to improve the quality and consistency of financial reporting of endowments held by not-for-profit organizations.

Kara Gammell asks the experts if politics could harm the country's long-term economic prospects.

Consumer prices ran hotter than expected in July, but it's the global growth picture investors should be worried about; Wal-Mart narrowly beat expectations; financial stocks revive.

MOSCOW, July 31 (RIA Novosti) - Commercial production of a new Russian short-haul passenger airliner, the Tu-334, will start within the next six months, the manufacturer said Thursday. Sergei Ilyushenkov, managing director of the Tupolev joint-stock company, said the Tu-334,

U.S. companies are shelling out big bucks for planes, bodyguards and trained drivers to keep their chief executives safe.

The US private equity group Lone Star has announced plans to buy the German bank IKB, which was one of the country's major casualties of the US sub-prime mortgage crisis. Germany's state development bank KfW, the government and private investors

ComeJanuary 2009 Ukraine will, in all likelihood, begin paying Russia'sGazprom in the range of $400 per 1,000 cubic meters...