The new film "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," the third installment in the robot action series, was the top-grossing movie in the country last weekend. Audiences were treated to fighting robots in 3-D and a new leading lady, British Victoria's...

BANGKOK - Thailand's prime minister elect, Yingluck Shinawatra, said she would hold a strategy meeting Wednesday to review urgent action to revitalize the economy, but business leaders fear her populist wage policies will spark a surge in inflation.

Almost no one is satisfied with the current state of the U.S. economy

TOKYO - The Bank of Japan is expected to hold off on easing monetary policy further and revise up its assessment of the economy next week, encouraged by a pickup in factory output and recovery in business sentiment hit by the devastating earthquake in March.

Almost no one is satisfied with the current state of the U.S. economy. But economists say the outlook is pretty bleak too.

Fueled in large part by the booming oil and natural gas industry, Oklahoma's economy continues to expand at an accelerating pace, with gross receipts for the month of June outpacing last year's collections by more than 15 percent, state Treasurer Ken Miller said Tuesday.

Still shunned as fringe ideologues, or worse, by Democrats and much of the formal scientific community, skeptics of global warming were nonetheless celebratory as they gathered in Washington last week for the conservative Heartland Institute's annual climate change conference. And for good reason.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 -- UBS Investment Bank expects the Malaysian economy to grow by 4.5 per cent this year and 5.0 per cent in 2012. Managing director and deputy head of global economics, UBS Investment Research, Paul Donovan said the forecast numbers are in line with the global political and economic situation.

The business and financial outlook for the second half of 2011 and beyond will be determined by which of two important economic concepts prevails: the wealth effect or the income effect.

U.S. policymakers are racing to reach an agreement before the debt ceiling is breached.