While US company brass get early experience in massaging news, this is not instinctive among foreign companies with American Depositary Receipts listed in this country.

Economists and businessmen agree with the French economist Thomas Piketty, that inequality today is close to that of the era of Robber Barons.

Today's blog focuses on Brazil, which faces difficult times under a re-elected Dilma Rousseff.

For the stock market conniptions of the past two weeks, lower oil prices were a sideline in the panicky and bizarre sell-offs.

A bear in a China shop has emerged, John-Paul Smith, senior stock analyst with Deutsche Bank. In a recent report, Smith said the same preludes to a stock market collapse which hit Russia in 1998 can be detected in Chinese markets today. Plus other global updates.