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Eight years after the financial crisis, the world is coming to grips with an unpleasant realization: serious weaknesses still plague the global economy

U.S. retail sales rose modestly in January, evidence that Americans kept shopping despite sharp drops in stock prices

Since the Fed raised interest rates from record lows last month, the global picture has darkened. Did the Fed err in raising rates for the first time in nearly a decade?

World stock markets plunged and Wall Street was due to suffer heavy losses on Monday after China’s main index sank 8.5 percent amid fears over the health of the world’s second-largest economy