Carlos Slim, the world’s richest person, is confronting a mounting backlash from the same Latin American countries that made him wealthy as authorities rein in his expanding mobile-phone empire.
Manufacturing unexpectedly contracted in November for the fourth month in the last six as factory managers grew more concerned about the potential economic toll stemming from the so-called fiscal...
Hedge funds increased bullish bets on commodities by the most since August as evidence that China is accelerating outweighed concerns about the so-called U.S. "fiscal cliff."
President Barack Obama is betting that his re-election gave him the political clout to force Republicans to accept higher taxes on upper-income Americans as a step toward reducing the federal deficit.
