CNBC - Economy

Inflation has risen for the eighth straight month in India, as food and energy prices rise due to the Iran war and deficient rainfall.

Following a wave of price hikes, at-home pastimes like streaming movies or playing video games are pinching pocketbooks.

Investors increasingly view China's two-speed growth with robust export and tepid domestic demand as a defining long-term feature of the Chinese economy.

The European Central Bank's Christine Lagarde has declined to rule out an early end to her term as president, as she mulls a foray into French politics.

A drop in the unemployment rate helped provide some upside to what was an otherwise downbeat jobs report — but it was for all the wrong reasons.