Oil prices slid to a three-month low on Monday, and lower oil and metals prices dragged on stocks around the world, along with an increasingly pessimistic view of the global economy.

Britain is braced for a possible recession after the economy ground to a halt between April and June, ending the longest stretch of growth for more than a century.

(RTTNews) - Market experts and government policy-makers have become increasingly torn between two encroaching dangers: rising inflation and a struggling economy.

With high gas prices and slumping home prices clouding the outlook for the U.S. economy, national leaders including Mark Drabenstott, director of the University of Missouri's Center for Regional Competitiveness, gathered recently in Chicago to find ways

The outlook for the Canadian economy this year has deteriorated, and it now appears Canada’s growth in 2008 will be significantly weaker than the United States and most other G-7 countries, according to economic research firm, Global Insight Inc.