Goldman Sach's earnings helped lift developed market stocks and set Wall Street up for modest gains on Thursday while worries about more tightening in China hit emerging market shares. The euro fell
Beijing needs to tighten its monetary policy to head off asset bubbles, leading economist Nouriel Roubini said on Thursday. "It will be nice to see an increase in the interest rate …
President Barack Obama, reeling from an election defeat in the Senate, will propose stricter limits on financial risk-taking on Thursday in a move that may recall Depression-era curbs on banks. The president
European shares were flat in early trade on Thursday, with weakness in banks and miners just offsetting gains in defensive drugmakers, as investors stayed cautious ahead of further corporate earnings from the
Stock index futures pointed to a lower open on Thursday, ahead of a slew of earnings news, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.04 percent, the Dow Jones industrial average 0.1
British public borrowing was lower than expected in December, helped by an increase in cash tax receipts, but still hit record highs for the month and financial year to date, official data
The flow of lending to British businesses picked up in November for the first time since January 2009, Bank of England data showed on Thursday, indicating credit conditions may be starting to
Sony Ericsson, a cellphone joint venture between Sony Corp and Ericsson, has no plans to delay the launch of a phone that runs Google Inc's Android operating system in China, the company's
Nokia will follow Google, offering free maps on its cellphones, in a move to boost handset sales but one that will hit other satnav players, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Thursday,
Minister of Foreign Affairs Markos Kyprianou said on Thursday that the British Court of Appeal ruling in the case Apostolides v Orams was especially important for Cyprus, and assured that the government
