857 seconds, according to one reporter. That’s how long Chinese traders worked this morning before the markets were closed.

We’re only a week into 2016, and already it’s a terrible start to the year for oil producers.

Low oil prices saved U.S. drivers $110 billion last year, and most of that money is being spent.

Cologne Mayor’s blame-the-victim rhetoric only one part of a bigger problem.

A new report from Joel Kotkin shows that families are fleeing the biggest blue cities because of unaffordable housing costs.

President Xi Jinping appears set to steam ahead with an aggressive foreign policy in 2016.

Europe’s oil benchmark fell below $35 per barrel for the first time since 2004.

Christmas is important to Christians because from their point of view the Baby Jesus is the meaning of Christmas, and the meaning of Christmas is the meaning of life.

Scottish nationalist leader Alex Salmond made a merry trip to Tehran before Christmas. But in Washington, there was scarcely a stir.

Japan’s Shinzo Abe and South Korea’s Park Gyeun-He are the big winners here.