The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

Gregory Katz London—Kalashnikov assault rifles. Plenty of ammunition. Molotov cocktails, a grenade, a death-dealing Skorpion machine pistol and a few handguns.

Obama will use a Monday event at the Federal Trade Commission to lay out the next steps of a plan to tackle identity theft and improve consumer and student privacy.

Since his surprising election on March 13, 2013, Pope Francis has attracted an astonishing amount of attention from people who are awed by his simplicity, modesty and indomitable will. Not surprisingly, this has led to an almost insatiable demand for books and other published materials on the popular pontiff.

CHEF MOM / Adoree Chong-Uy As we welcome the New Year with every taste bud satisfied, while still craving for more festive delicacies or sweets, we would like to spread the spirit of gratitude as we tackle questions about well-loved Christmas goodies.

By Cherie Mercado Santos First of two parts I can’t remember how long I had dreamed of seeing Provence, in France’s southern region, but the moment my husband Mike and I boarded the fastest possible train from Paris to the city-commune of Aix, I was giddy with excitement. I was like a little girl about to get her gift from …

This morning, America’s awards-show season begins in earnest when the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announces the winners of its 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards at the posh Beverly Hilton Hotel in Hollywood.

March 13, 2013, Vatican City—hardly the most auspicious day and place for a star to be born. Yet, a star—and a very brilliant and very unlikely one, at that—was indeed born, so to speak, in that location and on that date, when Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the archbishop of Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires and former Jesuit provincial of that South …

Two billion mobile phones were shipped worldwide in 2014, 75 percent of which were smartphones, says Tim Bajarin, longtime technology analyst and president of Creative Strategies. Demand is growing by 10 percent to 12 percent each year. And we want to send e-mails, play games, stream music and videos, get step-by-step directions—all battery hogs.

One hour by air southwest of Manila can be found what The Hufftington Post’s Carly Ledbetter describes as the “most beautiful island in the world.”

From an early age, people have been taught that savings is a guaranty for the future but in fiscal management, savings or the way the government defines it is not necessarily an advantage.