By Syantani Chatterjee Single mother Mary White worked as a sales clerk until the bank foreclosed on the home she rented. Tossed out on the street with her six boys, she lost
By Parisa Hafezi Any U.S. move to impose sanctions on the Central Bank of Iran could add to the woes of the world's financial system although the Islamic Republic will find ways
By David Bailey and Kevin Krolicki By pledging to cut $10 billion in costs, General Motors Corp has convinced investors and creditors that the immediate risk of bankruptcy has faded. After touching
By Sumeet Desai LONDON, July 18 (Reuters) – Britain may have to relax its own fiscal rules after data on Friday showed public borrowing at record levels, threatening to breach the restrictions
COMMENT By Patrick Skinner “Be-suited captains and black–vested waiters confer and preen and carry on behind a stone counter, while diners occupy, on the other side, a narrow lane of tables. The
By Jeremy Gaunt Fund managers are gloomier about equities than at any time in at least the last 10 years and aversion to risk is close to what it was during the
By Mark Weinraub The price was higher than Bill Boyd wanted to pay and still rising, but it didn't really matter. He needed a combine harvester. He lost most of his farm
By Bernd Debusmann By Bernd Debusmann WASHINGTON, July 16 (Reuters) – If necessity really is the mother of invention, oil at $140 a barrel and gasoline at $4 a gallon will force
Slovakia will be eurozone’s poorest By Peter Laca and Jan Lopatka SACA, Slovakia, July 16 (Reuters) – "What can I buy with 300?" cries Marca Tancosova, a Roma woman worried that her
Revival of Brazil By Ana Nicolaci da Costa BRASILIA, July 16 (Reuters) – Housekeeper Leonides de Moraes is part of the emerging middle class fueling Brazil's economic revival — but try telling
