India will once again become the world's fastest-growing major economy according to its latest forecast, which places economic growth at 7 to 7.5 percent in the 2018/19 fiscal year.

J.P. Morgan Chase is still allowing customers to buy cryptocurrencies with their Chase credit cards, the bank told CNBC. The bank did not respond to a question about potential changes to that policy.

Brazil expects to see upwards of 3 percent gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2018, Brazilian Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles told CNBC Tuesday, a figure that flies in the face of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) forecast of 1.5 percent.

This results in world leaders failing to account for how inclusive, or not, their economies are, the WEF said. The study looked at living standards, environmental sustainability and protection of future generations from further indebtedness as a way to determine if the economies were including every individual equally in their society.

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Amid threats of a potential ban on cryptocurrency, former FDIC Chair Sheila Bair said digital currencies such as bitcoin should be more tightly monitored but not stopped.

A major Australian university is set to achieve carbon neutrality on its energy use and will have all of its energy needs met by solar photovoltaics (solar PV).

There's a common story told in the media about the opioid epidemic: In this telling, it's not a coincidence that many of the communities that have been hit hard by the drug overdose crisis happen to be Rust Belt and Appalachian towns that have seen jobs leave over the past few years. This economic hardship has fed what some have characterized as, borrowing a term from groundbreaking research by economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton, "deaths of despair."

The unmanned electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing cargo air vehicle (CAV) would be used to test Boeing's autonomous technology.

U.S. wholesale inventories rose slightly more than initially estimated in November, suggesting that inventory investment will probably contribute to economic growth in the fourth quarter.

Tesla said on Tuesday it began manufacturing its premium solar roof tiles at the company's Buffalo, New York factory last month and has started surveying the homes of customers who made a deposit of $1,000 to reserve the product last year.

This decision was made due to the "macroeconomic fundamentals of the Angolan economy, and particularly the decreasing trend of international reserves," it emerged in a central bank statement Thursday, as reported by Reuters.

Developments in financial technology and electric cars have led China to move beyond being just a manufacturing hub, UBS Asia Pacific President Kathryn Shih said