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A slowdown, or worse, in China's economy because of bursting stock and real-estate bubbles was high on most Davos 2010 participants' check-lists of risks to the recovery in global economic growth. They may have got some reassurance today from China's central bank's decision to rein in the lending that is inflating them by raising its capital reserve ratio requirement of the country' big banks for the second time in a month.

Asian stocks tumbled Friday as ballooning European debt and a rise in U.S. unemployment claims added to fears the global recovery could slip back into recession....

As global trade recovers, expect a return to pre-crisis current account dynamics.

Stocks struggled after a quartet of blue-chip companies reported generally strong earnings but weak revenue, reinforcing investors' jitters about persistent weakness on the demand side of the global economy.

Romania's government fell Tuesday as a parliament no-confidence vote in Bucharest triggered a political void in another struggling Eastern European economy. Prime Minister Emil Boc's cabinet mustered only ...

The International Monetary Fund on Thursday declared that a global economic recovery has begun led by Asia, also cautioning that the strength of the rebound depended on a rebalancing of global growth.

The world's most exclusive club has just gotten bigger, and it is promising a lot of big things for the global economy. But it is likely to have just as much trouble delivering results as the smaller group it replaced....