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By Howard Mustoe |
May 22, 2013
Three U.K. business lobby groups told the European Union its proposed financial transaction tax will harm the economic recovery.
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By Rebecca Christie, James G. Neuger and Svenja O’Donnell |
March 24, 2013
Cyprus agreed to the outlines of an international bailout, eliminating the threat of default.
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By James G. Neuger and Rebecca Christie, Bloomberg |
March 14, 2013
European leaders are loosening the economic shackles once demanded by Germany as the recession and mounting unemployment in southern Europe shove aside the debt crisis as the euro area’s biggest headache.
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By Michael Shanahan and Rita Nazareth, Bloomberg |
February 27, 2013
Stocks rallied, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average to the highest since October 2007, as Italy sold debt amid political turmoil and U.S. data bolstered confidence in the world’s largest economy.
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By Stephen Kirkland, Inyoung Hwang and Leslie Picker, Bloomberg |
February 8, 2013
Stocks and commodities rose as Europe’s leaders reached a budget agreement, China’s trade expanded more than estimated and companies posted better-than- forecast earnings. Spanish bonds gained and the yen rallied.
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By Rebecca Christie and Tony Czuczka, Bloomberg |
October 19, 2012
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said it’s an open question whether European policy makers can meet the deadline they’d set hours earlier to establish a euro-area bank supervisor by year-end.
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By Allison Bennett, Bloomberg |
September 4, 2012
The euro weakened versus most of its major counterparts amid concern policy measures from the European Central Bank may not be enough to contain the region’s debt crisis.
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By Michael P. Regan and Lu Wang, Bloomberg |
August 28, 2012
Treasuries rose, sending 10-year yields to a two-week low, while U.S. stocks fluctuated as consumer confidence slid and investors awaited Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s speech on the economy in three days.
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By Patrick Donahue, Bloomberg |
July 30, 2012
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi has gone on the offensive as he seeks a game changer in the battle against the sovereign debt crisis.
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By Masaki Kondo and Mariko Ishikawa, Bloomberg |
July 2, 2012
The euro fell against most peers before data today that may show the currency bloc’s jobless rate climbed to a record and manufacturing contracted
