U.S. regulators will be under pressure on Wednesday to show lawmakers they are better policing foreclosures amid widespread evidence that lenders used shoddy paperwork to evict delinquent borrowers. The Senate Banking Committee
Japan's Nikkei average edged up 0.5% on Wednesday after falling nearly 2% the previous day when a liquidity squeeze hit Chinese shares, and market players said they would continue looking to Chinese
Gold rallied over 1% to a 2-1/2 week peak on Tuesday and euro-priced bullion set a fresh record high as concern over sovereign debt levels in the euro zone fuelled buying of
European stocks dipped on Tuesday, struggling to halt a sharp three-week sell-off as investors continued to dump banking shares on mounting fears of a domino effect in the euro zone after Ireland's
Oil slipped in early New York trading on Tuesday as the dollar hit a 2-1/2 month high against the euro on concerns that Europe's debt crisis may widen and on worries over
The euro zone's debt crisis deepened on Tuesday, with investors pushing the single currency lower and the spreads on peripheral bonds up to new highs amid concern weak member states may ultimately
Portugal's central bank said on Tuesday the country's banks faced an "intolerable risk" unless the government manages to bring its public spending under control as it struggles to combat a debt crisis.
The trustee seeking to recover money for defrauded former clients of Bernard Madoff filed dozens of lawsuits on Tuesday to recover hundreds of millions of dollars, including one seeking money from an
The Oxford English Dictionary's (OED) online version was relaunched on Tuesday a decade after it first appeared on the Internet. The new version contains 600,000 words, three million quotations and covers more
– EC expects Irish GDP to expand 0.9 percent next year – Ireland forecast GDP growth of 1.75 percent next year – Growth after banking crises is particularly tough The extension of
