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By Emily Kaiser (Reuters)  In one $85 billion fell swoop, the U.S. Federal Reserve may have wiped out what credibility it won resisting Lehman Brothers' rescue plea and opened its door to

By Christian Plumb and Dan Wilchins (Reuters) Not long ago, when Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld talked about "everyone's worst nightmare" he was referring to a massive fraud at French bank Societe

Investor risk has receded Prime Minister Vladimir Putin brushed off concerns over steep falls in Russia's stock market and billions of dollars of withdrawn foreign investment, saying the economy was well placed

By Jo Winterbottom (Reuters)  Italy may have earned a bad name for changing the rules to rescue its corporations, but in these straitened times Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's bespoke bailout of airline

By Jonathan Cable (Reuters) The chances of a British recession are rising as the economy grinds to a halt, compelling the Bank of England to cut interest rates early next year after

By Pedro Nicolaci da Costa (Reuters) U.S. mortgage rates fell on Monday after the government seized control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, raising hopes the plan would provide at least temporary

By Clara Ferreira-Marques (Reuters) London's housing market may be cooling, but not when it comes to 10-bedroom mansions with designer interiors, indoor swimming pools and private gardens in the capital's most sought-after

. It was quite a long wait, but we finally heard some sense from the Finance Minister as regards the enormous public payroll, the high cost of pensions and the over-privileged civil

By Louis Charbonneau The world's wealthiest countries are reneging on promises to boost development aid, threatening U.N. targets for drastically reducing poverty by 2015, according to a new U.N. report released on

(Histrionics until Christmas?) By Tom Lawrence The umpteenth round of fully fledged negotiations to solve the Cyprus problem are officially launched Wednesday and all eyes are again on “that little island with