British bookmaker Ladbrokes has made a preliminary takeover approach for rival Sportingbet , sending Sportingbet's shares surging higher. "Further to recent press speculation, the board of Sportingbet announces that it has received
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao heads to debt-stricken Europe seeking to safeguard China's vast holdings of euro-denominated assets as Greece teeters on the brink of default and preserve trade growth with its largest
Pop superstar Lady Gaga, in Japan for a charity concert, on Thursday praised the country for its beauty and encouraged visitors, whose numbers have dropped in the wake of the earthquake, tsunami
Investors reacted with caution on Thursday to a relatively downbeat outlook from the U.S. Federal Reserve, sending world stocks lower and boosting the dollar in a search for safety. Europe's debt crisis
Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos, a political battering ram picked to turn around his country's economic fortunes, may find the force of his oratory not enough to convince sceptical markets and EU
The euro zone would be better off without Greece, a conservative member of Germany's ruling coalition said in an article on Thursday, urging his government to push for an orderly insolvency process
Belgium has asked banks and insurers with exposure to Greece to roll over maturing sovereign bonds for five years at a coupon equivalent to the euro zone rescue fund's lending rate, a
Spanish infrastructure firm Abertis will focus on airport privatisations at home before considering assets coming on the block in debt-ridden economies like Portugal and Greece, its chief executive said. Abertis operates tollways
The German government on Wednesday played down reports that tax cuts, one of the main platforms of Chancellor Angela Merkel's allies, were back on the agenda after being shelved because of the
G20 agriculture ministers considered French proposals to tighten regulation of commodity markets and set up emergency reserves as they gathered on Wednesday for a first-ever summit that aims to tackle rising food
