A New York student who is friends with the fan who caught Barry Bonds` 756 home run ball looks to cash in even though he never got his hands on the historic item. (Sept. 7)
Volatile markets and a cheap dollar usually signal a good time for gold investing. Tom Winmill, portfolio manager for Midas Funds, discusses the movement of gold prices with MarketWatch`s Michael Kitchen. (Aug. 29).
Mark Headley of the Matthews China Fund says it`s no surprise that the subprime woes in the U.S. are spilling over into China. He tells MarketWatch`s Jonathan Burton what he`s trimming and what Chinese sectors he`s investing in. (Aug. 28).
Economy
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This article is about the human activity. For the social science that studies it, see Economics. For other meanings see Economy (disambiguation).
Gross domestic product in 2005.
An economy is the realized system of human activities related to the production, distribution, exchange, and consumption of goods and services of a country or other area.
The composition of a given economy is inseparable from technological evolution, civilization's history and social organization, as well as from Earth's geography and ecology, e.g. ecoregions which represent different agricultural and resource extraction opportunities, among other factors. Economy refers also to the measure of how a country or region is progressing in terms of product.
