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The dollar hit a seven-month high against a currency basket on Friday, boosted by risk aversion as the cost of insuring the debt of some euro zone nations against default hit record

Greece unveiled legislation on Thursday to make its discredited statistics service fully independent after the European Union demanded it put an end to the release of flawed economic data. The draft legislation,

The Bank of England put a hold on its unprecedented 200 billion pound asset-buying programme for the first time in 11 months on Thursday, but left the door open for more so-called

The number of workers filing new applications for jobless benefits unexpectedly rose last week, according to a government report on Thursday that pointed to a labor market still under stress even as

Highest price for a work at auction Alberto Giacometti’s L’homme qui marche I (Walking Man I) sold for £65,001,250 or €74,185,983 at Sotheby’s in London on Wednesday night, becoming the most expensive

The Bank of England announced on Thursday no increase to its unprecedented 200 billion pound asset-buying programme, halting the scheme after 11 months in a move that could signal a return to

The Consumer Price Index for January 2010 decreased by 2.22 units or 1.97% to 110.38 units, compared to 112.60 in December 2009, and the rate of increase of the Index and therefore

Turmoil brewing in Greece could slow the European Central Bank's withdrawal of its extra liquidity measures, especially if other countries become infected with similar woes. Some analysts even speculate a north-south divide

Bank of Cyprus Public Company Ltd announced that it has signed an agreement to sell 100% of the share capital of Leadbank LLC (former Bank Kypra LLC), one of its two Russian

The European Commission endorsed on Wednesday a Greek plan to cut its budget deficit below three percent of GDP by the end of 2012, but said it must take further steps to