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The price of the yellow metal has been on bearish mode since it hit its highest point at USD 1856 per oz. in 2011, but now analysts say gold is reversing the trend and may even hit the USD 1,400 mark before 2016 ends, Market Oracle reports.

The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits fell back to a 42-year low last week, suggesting the labor market remained strong despite an abrupt slowdown in job growth in the past two months.

The German government expects strong private consumption and increased state spending on refugees to drive growth in Europe's largest economy this year and next, offsetting weaker demand from China and other emerging markets.

Until recently, Lucinelia de Jesus Souza's future seemed bright, running a small coffee shop that caters to factory workers and other blue-collar customers in this industrial suburb of São Paulo

The mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey, said on Monday that his city could become the first in the New York City, tri-state area to legalize short-term housing rentals through Airbnb and similar online home-rental services

Hedge funds declined for the fourth consecutive month in September, according to data released today by HFR®, the established global leader in the indexation, analysis and research of the global hedge fund industry.

The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the global industry body representing alternative asset managers, has published new cyber security guidance for hedge fund firms and other asset managers.

The Federal Reserve will likely raise U.S. interest rates at its December policy meeting, Rick Rieder, chief investment officer of global fixed income at BlackRock said on Friday, adding that even a year-end hike was not a sure thing.

NEW YORK - U.S. stock and bond prices rose, while the dollar fell on Thursday after the Federal Reserve decided to hold U.S. interest rates near zero on concerns about global weakness but left the door open for a rate increase later this year.

The Chinese stock market plunged for a second straight day Tuesday with China main stock exchange, the Shanghai Composite Index, falling 7.6% after losing 8.5% the day before on what the media has labeled China's "Black Monday," reported BBC.

Yahoo! Inc. has proposed to spin off its stake in Alibaba and rename it Aabaco Holdings. However, the Internet company hopes that regulators in the United States would approve a tax deal first before conducting this business operation.

In 2014, which was last year, H&R Block had a massive ad campaign during tax season which featured Richard Gartland in a green bow tie. Gartland was on several H & R Block commercials saying that last year, all of the 56,000,000 Americans who did their tax returns left $1 billion "on the table". This led to the slogan of "Get your Billion back America". Now, in 2015, some variations of the same advertisement are playing, except it ends with the slogan of "Get your Billions back America". That is "billions" plural, which means it is more than one, which is at least two. This cannot be correct, and there are so many reasons why consumers and tax-paying Americans should not except this ad campaign at face value, and are truly being lied to by H&R Block.

The Lunar New Year festivities may have been dampened a little bit in the United States thanks to the work slowdown at seaports across the West Coast and could have an effect on the entire economy.

President Barack Obama visited the Cyber Security Summit at Stanford University on Friday, signing an executive order aiming to protect computer networks and data. However, not everyone was on board with the president's plan.

A personal visit to Silicon Valley by the U.S. Secretary of Transportation this week, followed by the release of a major annual report on the health of the region's economy provided hints of a future for the country's technology capital that will include huge transit challenges and optimism that the current tech boom is not another "bubble."

For as long as the Internet has existed, the most common model for generating revenue has been ads which, when clicked, pay out tiny amounts of money. Based on a major mobile media conference this week and recent news from Facebook, that model is about to change.

The British anti-poverty charity Oxfam released a report that claimed that the world’s richest 1 percent would soon own more wealth in the world than the other 99 percent.

It did not get a lot of media attention last month, but Napster co-founder and Facebook's first president Sean Parker took a major step towards building his new company - Brigade Media - that hopes to transform voter engagement at the state and federal level. Parker joins a growing list of technology leaders and billionaires who have formed for-profit and non-profit ventures over the past two years seeking to capitalize on the interest of political and advocacy campaigns in using new technologies to further their cause.

Despite efforts by Russia’s central bank to save the currency, the ruble fell over a six-day period to historic lows, putting pressure on both ordinary Russians and President Vladimir Putin.

With all of the publicity surrounding Bitcoin these days, a great deal of attention is being paid to the digital currency's price (currently around $375 to the dollar). Yet the real story may not be in what a Bitcoin is actually worth, but how a surprising number of startup companies are designing their fledgling business models around the technology tools that make the cryptocurrency actually work.

Dallas, TX - Rapid growth in the U.S.A., bold new moves into South Korea and China, and the first written history of the unique, ground-breaking organization, highlights the 30th year celebration of business trend setter Marketplace Chaplains, the largest and original American workplace chaplaincy organization.

HTC has officially announced the release date of HTC One 2 to be on March 25 at a global launch event held in New York and London. The Taiwanese company has issued invites for the launch of its 2014 flagship, codenamed the M8.

President Obama addressed on Tuesday the continuing government shutdown for the eighth day and the looming deadline for U.S. government default at a White House press conference . He then answered reporters' questions on his course of action should the government do go into default, the foreign creditors' viewpoints, and any last resort of constitutional measure.