After falling to a low near 6,500 in March 2009, the Dow Jones Industrial Average doubled to hit an all-time high in March 2013. This is the first time since October 2007, but investors have called it quits. A look at then and now suggests what may be driving this behavior.

Commodities play an important role in our everyday lives—our houses are made of many resources, such as lumber and aluminum, and are heated with coal or natural gas. Read further to discover surprising uses of commodities in our daily lives.

With rising wealth in emerging markets in recent years, people across the globe have quickly acquired a taste for mobile phone and Internet technology. See 10 surprising facts in this slideshow.

Many see India as a land of opportunity but the country must first overcome several hurdles before it’s judged on the same level with the likes of China. So we sent our research team to India to see what we could find.

The world has plenty of oil, but many believe all of the world’s “easy oil” has been found. Some of the most promising oil reserves lie thousands of feet beneath the ocean floor or fused in sediment in the form of tar sands.