Europe faces a slew of national elections in the coming weeks with the focus on what form of coalitions will emerge and whether they will make it easier or harder to make
U.S. President Barack Obama will give a speech about the financial crisis on Monday, marking the anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the White House said. "He will discuss the aggressive
Chinese industrial output, investment and credit growth accelerated in August, suggesting the economic recovery is on a solid course, but Beijing is unlikely to hit the policy brakes too hard to avoid
Asian shares edged up on Friday as strong Chinese economic data supported regional recovery hopes, but Japanese exporters were hurt by a stronger yen as the dollar fell to its lowest in
The U.S. trade deficit increased the most in more than 10 years in July as rebounding consumer demand led to a record increase in imports, a government report showed on Thursday. The
World equities pulled back from an 11-month high on Thursday in the face of a likely weaker opening on Wall Street. Rising inflation expectations in Europe underlined the headwinds facing the global
Stock index futures were weaker on Thursday, easing after the S&P 500 benchmark index racked up its highest closing level for the year, while investors awaited data on the labor market. Texas
The 2009 stock market rally continued unabated on Thursday with world equities at an 11-month high, emerging market stocks moving further beyond pre-Lehman demise levels and Japan's index up nearly 2 percent.
The struggle to pick an owner for General Motors' Opel unit was set to come to a head on Thursday after the U.S. carmaker said it had made a decision and would
European equities gained for a fifth straight session and hit a new 11-month peak on Thursday, led by technology and media stocks, with investors awaiting the Bank of England's decision on interest
