Asian shares gave back most of their earlier gains on Thursday after data showed China's factory activity shrank for a fifth successive month, renewing concerns about a growth slowdown in the world's
Asian shares eased on Wednesday, as concerns about China's slowing economy dampened the optimism generated by a brightening outlook for the U.S. economy that has been pushing equity markets higher since late
Greece's biggest telecom operator, OTE, is planning deeper wage cuts to help secure its future as heavy regulation makes customer losses caused by the recession there even worse, its chief executive said.
The gap between northern and southern euro zone economies will continue to widen for another three years, European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny said on Tuesday, adding that rising oil prices were
Turkey's Global Investments Holding is eyeing energy and infrastructure investment opportunities in neighbouring Greece, hit by a debt crisis, with a priority given to port operations. "As Global Investments Holding, we are
* Aims for balanced budget by 2016/17 * * Royal Mail pension assets to help 2012/13 deficit * * Growth may nudge higher, Queen's Jubilee to weigh * British government borrowing next
Following is a selection of measures discussed ahead of Chancellor George Osborne's annual budget statement to parliament: 50 PENCE TAX RATE Osborne has been facing growing calls from within his own Conservative
The Italian government on Tuesday called a confidence vote in the lower house of parliament to speed the final passage of measures to deregulate the service sector that Prime Minister Mario Monti
Mario Monti will walk into a meeting with Italy's trade union bosses on Tuesday, knowing it can help make, or break, his brief tenure as prime minister and his attempts to drag
A senior executive at Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd, Asia's largest property developer by market value, has been arrested by Hong Kong's anti-graft body over suspected bribery, in a rare case for
