In a case of art imitating life, with perhaps a little poetic license, Oscar-winning movie Avatar paints big mining companies as the villains of the future. […]

The US has put into action an ambitious strategy to double exports by prising open lucrative emerging markets in a bid to ease unemployment amid fragile economic recovery. […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The court-appointed examiner who investigated the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers Holding Co is set to make his report publicly available, after a judge ruled he could do so on Thursday. […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lingering U.S. labor market weakness and nagging doubts about the solidity of the economic recovery are expected to keep the Federal Reserve committed to holding borrowing costs very low for a long time at a monetary policy meeting next week. […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two years ago, a poisonous brew of bad economics, lax regulation, and egregious behavior boiled over, scalding the financial system and pitching the United States into its steepest downturn since the Great Depression. […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An overwhelming majority of Americans wants Wall Street subjected to tougher regulation in the aftermath of the bank bailout and the bonus scandals that have rocked the U.S. financial sector, according to a Harris poll released on Thursday. […]