China share slide: Pension fund to invest in stock market

China plans to let its main state pension fund invest in the stock market for the first time, the country's official news agency, Xinhua, has reported.

China's economy is in trouble. How bad is it?

There is almost no way that China's economy is growing as well as the government says it is.

U.K. Wealth Fund to Target Private Equity, Infrastructure Investment

London Mayor Boris Johnson’s fledgling British sovereign-wealth fund plans to combine local public pension funds and invest billions of pounds in private equity and infrastructure projects.

Oman’s Daily Oil Output Tops 1 Million Barrels for First Time

Oman, the biggest oil producer in the Middle East outside OPEC, said its crude and condensate production in July exceeded 1 million barrels a day for the first time.

For Currency Traders, All Eyes on Inflation Before Fed Liftoff

Do we have liftoff? That’s the question currency traders will be asking next week as they weigh Wednesday’s U.S. inflation data and minutes from the Federal Reserve’s latest meeting for clues about the timing of the central bank’s first interest-rate increase in almost a decade.