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Frenzied construction in cities like Wuhan belies signs that development financed with borrowing by local governments could undermine China’s economic progress.

A long-anticipated high-speed railway between Beijing and Shanghai is due to begin trial operations Wednesday, as China persists with its lavish rail spending boom despite recent losses and scandals.

Regulators are warning that a new real estate bubble may be forming as farmland prices surge across the Midwest.

As Florida and the Southwest have begun to stabilize, the pain has moved to economically diverse cities where the boom was relatively restrained, like Seattle, Atlanta and Minneapolis.

China's manufacturing boom eased further in January as authorities tightened controls on credit, though inflationary pressures continued to rise, according to data released Tuesday.

China's manufacturing boom eased off slightly in the last month of the year, a survey said, reflecting tightening policies taken by authorities to keep inflation in check.

For all the oil spill claims and cleanup work by BP, retirees from the North may be the best survival bet for some Gulf Coast resort towns this winter.

The Ford Explorer, the hulking family-hauler that helped launch the SUV boom in the early 1990s, is back.

The rising economies of Brazil, China, and India will see strong growth in their agricultural sectors in the next decade as output remains stagnant among big importers in Western Europe, international experts forecast Tuesday.

A supposed boom in startup companies may just be acts of desperation by workers who have lost their jobs.