* Monti, Hollande call for action to cut excess borrowing costs * ECB rate decision, news conference on Sept. 6 ...

* Merkel speaks in parliament before June 18-19 G20 summit * Calls debt mutualisation "counterproductive" * German leade...

NEW YORK — It came and went in a flash each time, a number on a board for mere seconds, but its symbolic power couldn't be dismissed. The Dow J...

ATHENS, Greece — Greece's Finance Minister says the European Central Bank and national central banks should be part of a debt relief deal with t...

* IMF says larger euro firewall needed to deal with Italy, Spain * Lagarde wants more fiscal risk-sharing, such as eur...

BRUSSELS — Retails sales in the 17-nation eurozone dropped in November, official statistics showed Friday, as consumers felt the bite of austeri...

(Sarah N. Lynch) - Congressional investigators have launched an inquiry into the work of credit rating firms that examined MF Global Holdings Ltd'...

The fundamental problem is that for all their summiting, for all their meticulous planning, and for all their considerable progress together for more than half a century, there is still no one country called "Europe."

While the Germans aren't entirely wrong in their belief that lower deficits would restore funding capacity, I don't think they recognize that as currency users debt to GDP ratios may need to be under 30 percent to get to that point.

NEW YORK — Financial markets slumped Thursday after the head of Europe's central bank dashed hopes that the bank was preparing to help extinguis...

Over the 14 ½ Summits of the European leadership since the beginning of the Greek crisis, very little has been actually decided. In order to avoid a further and catastrophic deterioration of the precarious situation of its public finance, action must be the absolute priority.

BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected a new push by the European Commission for bonds issued jointly by the 17 euro nations, saying ...

Uncertainty about potential loan losses in Europe continues to roil markets around the world. For many investors, taxpayers and ordinary people there ...