XIAMEN, Fujian - China is dedicated to creating a "more open and optimized" investment environment for foreign businesses, and will strive to remain the world's most attractive destination for foreign direct investment (FDI), Vice-President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday.

Xi made the remarks, which ...

Asian stocks fell for a second day, led by Japanese equities, as the yen’s advance to a 15-year high versus the dollar threatened corporate earnings in the world’s third-largest economy. Gold traded near a record high.

The MSCI Asia Pacific Index lost 1 percent to 120.59 as of 4 p.m. in ...

Job openings in the U.S. rose in July, a sign some employers are getting ready to expand as the world’s largest economy recovers, a government report showed.

Openings increased by 178,000 to 3.04 million, the Labor Department said today in Washington. The number of people hired fell from the ...

The Federal Reserve said the U.S. economy maintained its expansion while showing “widespread signs of a deceleration” in mid-July through the end of August, according to a survey by 12 regional Fed banks.

Five regional banks reported “economic growth at a moderate pace” and two pointed to ...

BEIJING - The number of bribery cases involving government officials has increased by 13 percent since 2003, a senior anti-corruption official from the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) said.

Prosecutors charged 9,476 governmental officials in nearly 9,000 bribery cases nationwide from ...

U.S. stocks fell, ending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index’s longest winning streak since July, on concern the European debt crisis may worsen.

Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc. fell more than 1.5 percent as European banks slumped on concern that stress tests understated holdings of ...

XIAMEN - Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping said Tuesday that China is taking vigorous steps to create a more open and optimal investment environment for foreign-invested enterprises.
Xi made the remarks while attending the opening ceremony of the 2nd World Investment Forum (WIF) in Xiamen City, ...

More U.S. stocks are paying dividends that exceed bond yields than any time in at least 15 years as profits rise at the fastest pace in two decades.

Kraft Foods Inc. and DuPont Co. are among 68 companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index with payouts that top the 3.80 percent average rate in ...

SHANGHAI - A well-known Chinese entrepreneur and philanthropist has pledged to donate his entire fortune to charity after his death, becoming the first in China to respond to the campaign launched in the US by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, who will soon visit China to advocate ...

MILWAUKEE -- A combative President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs program Monday that would exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways, and coupled it with a blunt campaign-season assault on Republicans for causing Americans' hard economic times.

Republican leaders ...