Federal Reserve officials said on Thursday that while the recession-battered economy is on the mend, it will be weak for a while and the Fed is likely to keep its extensive support
Futures for the Dow Jones industrial average, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 fall 0.3-0.4 percent, pointing to a weaker start on Wall Street on Friday. The U.S. Labor Department releases
IBM is introducing an inexpensive Web-based corporate email service that will compete with Google Inc's Google Apps, which has recently suffered several high-profile outages. International Business Machines Corp will likely try to
The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg, has asked Turkey to establish an effective national human rights institution and to create and implement a comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation. Commissioner Hammarberg
From October 5, Cyprus will gradually begin receiving the vaccine for influenza H1N1, Minister of Health Christos Patsalides announced, adding that vaccinations will begin after October 15, when the European Pharmaceutical Organisation
European shares hit a four-week low on Friday, extending the previous day's sharp losses, as investors were nervy before the U.S. jobs figures after data this week cast doubt about the strength
World stocks fell and the U.S. dollar broadly held firm on Friday as doubts grew about the pace of economic recovery and the week's major data on U.S. jobs loomed large. European
The fundamental credit outlook for the Baltic banking systems is negative, reflecting the significant decline in banks' financial metrics within the context of the severely weakened economies of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania,
Minister of Finance Charilaos Stavrakis and Vice President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) Ploutarchos Sakellaris signed an agreement of guarantees on Thursday, providing for a loan of 30 million EUR from
The EU27 unemployment rate rose up to 9.1% in August 2009, compared with 9.0% in July, while it was 7.0% in August 2008 according to data released by Eurostat. The euro area
