U.S. employers cut a deeper-than-expected 263,000 jobs in September, lifting the unemployment rate to 9.8 percent, according to a government report on Friday that fueled fears the weak labor market could undermine
Equity markets across the globe tumbled 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
Weakness in miners and financials dragged Britain's top share index 0.9 percent lower by midday on Friday, as weak data this week increased investors' concerns, denting risky assets ahead of U.S. non-farm
EDF plans to sell EDF Energy, Britain's largest power distribution business, for more than 4 billion euros ($5.8 billion) to help cut debt, the French group said on Friday. The world's largest
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
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,
