Washington - United Parcel Service Inc Monday reported a 21- per-cent drop in profits, caused by rising fuel costs and a slowing economy, which have affected both domestic and international package segments. UPS, the world's largest package-delivery ...

Republican presidential candidate John McCain's tax policies have given him an edge as the better man for the economy, various Wall Street experts said at this week's Reuters Investment Outlook Summit.

BEIJING (AP) - Preparing for a Washington summit to discuss a response to the global financial crisis, China indicated Tuesday its focus will be its own economy - not paying to bail out others.

Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- The biggest round of Australian interest-rate cuts since a recession in 1991 and government cash handouts will cushion the economy against slower global growth and falling commodity prices, a central bank official said.

The latest Harris Poll finds that the financial crisis has moved the economy, which was already at the top of the list of concerns for Americans, far ahead of all other political issues that people want the government to address. According to some of the