Bloomberg Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President John Williams said the global economy, particularly China and Brazil, was having a significant impact on measures that U.S. policy makers watch to determine interest rates. The world’s largest economy is doing “quite well,” Williams said on Monday in an interview on CNBC, citing stable inflation and strong employment growth. The U.S. ...

Bloomberg Mariele Santarosa limits her social outings and shopping now that business at her Sao Paulo dental practice has dropped 80 percent in a year, a victim of Brazil’s longest recession in at least a century. “Many people lost their jobs and go to the dentist only when in pain,” said Santarosa, 35, who spent a recent Saturday morning browsing ...

BRUSSELS / AFP The Brussels attacks have pushed security to the forefront of Britain’s EU referendum campaign this week, as intelligence experts came out of the shadows to press the benefits and disadvantages of membership. A claim by the former head of foreign spy agency MI6, Richard Dearlove, that leaving the bloc would have few security implications sparked interventions from ...