U.S. stock and options markets will be closed on Monday and possibly Tuesday, the exchange operator said, going back on a plan that would have kept electronic trading going on Monday. As Hurricane Sandy bears down on the New York area, regulators, exchanges and brokers grew increasingly worried about the integrity of markets and the
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Three men have been arrested over an alleged plot to assassinate the Attorney General of the Republic Petros Clerides. The three suspects were arrested by the Police between Sunday night and Monday morning and are currently being questioned on charges of conspiracy to commit murder. At 12:00 noon, they are expected to be brought before
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Greece's foreign lenders have refused to make any further concessions on changes to labour laws contested by a junior coalition partner, the country's finance minister said on Sunday, prolonging an impasse on a crucial austerity package. Athens has been locked in talks with its European Union and International Monetary Fund lenders on the austerity package
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– Greek official says list for judicial investigators to probe A prominent Greek journalist who published the names of more than 2,000 wealthy Greeks with Swiss bank accounts appeared in court on Monday to stand trial on charges of violating data privacy laws. Costas Vaxevanis, editor of the "Hot Doc" weekly magazine, was arrested at
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich's party looks set to win a parliamentary majority after Sunday's election, but it may be hard pressed by an opposition boosted by resurgent nationalists and a liberal party headed by boxing champion Vitaly Klitschko. Leaders of the ruling Party of the Regions claimed victory after exit polls put it in the
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The last employment report before the U.S. presidential election is likely to have something for everyone – for those bullish and bearish on the economy and for Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Non-farm payrolls in October are forecast to have risen 124,000, barely more than September's 114,000 gain, according to 78 economists polled by Reuters.
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– Hurricane may come ashore late Monday in New Jersey – Could be biggest ever to hit U.S. mainland – New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Boston in its path – New York Stock Exchange to close Monday – Public transit, trains, airlines affected Hurricane Sandy, a mammoth storm menacing the East Coast, took aim at the most
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With the U.S. presidential election too close to call, hundreds of thousands of Americans living in Europe have been posting their absentee ballots with a sense that they could truly make a difference on Nov. 6. From Berlin to Paris and London to Madrid, they have closely tracked the battle between Democrat President Barack Obama
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Ukrainians voted on Sunday in an election that President Viktor Yanukovich's pro-business ruling party seemed likely to win, but it may now face a re-energised opposition which has promised to fight growing authoritarianism and corruption. With Yanukovich's main rival, Yulia Tymoshenko, in jail and with the West seeing the poll as a test of Ukraine's
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Hurricane Sandy could be the biggest storm to hit the United States mainland when it comes ashore on Monday night, bringing strong winds and dangerous flooding to the East Coast from the mid-Atlantic states to New England, forecasters said on Sunday. Sandy could have a brutal impact on major cities in the target zone like
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