NICOSIA, Cyprus -- Banks in Cyprus will not open before Tuesday at the earliest as government officials try to find a new plan to stave off financial ...

NEW YORK, March 18 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks dropped on Monday, after a plan to tax bank accounts in Cyprus to help pay for the country's bailout stoked...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Forget about statistics for employment and industrial production, it is being claimed that the price of a hamburger is showing wh...

* Factory orders hint of U.S. economy weakness * CBOE Volatility index surges as investors turn cautious * Spanish and Italian political uncerta...

By Luke Baker BRUSSELS, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Debate about the idea of creating a separate budget for euro zone countries is intensifying...

Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain are becoming increasingly uncompetitive economically relative to Germany. A higher average inflation rate in Germany can help reverse this slide.

The continual gatherings of heads of state, such as the one just concluded in Rome of Germany, France, Greece and Italy, reassure us that the euro will be saved. But the means to do so seem to be as elusive as ever.

Hello, American reader. We know there are things in this world you care very deeply about: The NBA finals, the "True Blood" premiere, Apple's shiny ne...

The president of Estonia chewed out Paul Krugman on Wednesday, using Twitter to call the Nobel Prize-winning economist "smug, overbearing & patronizin...

To solve the problems of youth unemployment restoring global growth is crucial, as are policies to support job creation and credit. None of this can be achieved without global cooperation.­

Jan 25 (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc said it may make further cuts in its securities and banking unit in 2012 if revenue does not pick u...

No one should underestimate the severity of the crisis gripping the Euro zone. But press speculation on the euro's demise -- often with the tone that it was about to happen -- any second! -- has been more about media fashion than understanding of Europe.

PARIS/FRANKFURT (Paul Taylor and Paul Carrel) - Pressure mounted on Wednesday for the European Central Bank to intervene more decisively after fin...

NEW YORK (Caroline Valetkevitch) - On top of euro zone debt troubles, Wall Street now has to worry about sagging sales from Europe as a recession ...

BRUSSELS (Robin Emmott) - Worries about the euro zone's debt crisis worsened in November and dragged the European Commission's economic and consum...

MILAN (Valentina Za) - Italy paid a record 6.5 percent to borrow money over six months on Friday and its longer-term funding costs soared far abov...

In 2008, private-sector bad debts were absorbed by governments. Who will absorb government debts? Will the only outlet be expansionary monetary policy?

The euro area is headed toward a sharp economic slowdown in 2012, with some countries set for negative growth, and failure to restore confidence i...

STRASBOURG, France, Sept 28 (Reuters) - The European Union's executive proposed a bloc-wide tax on financial transactions that would set a rate of...

FRANKFURT (Sakari Suoninen) - The European Central Bank is likely to signal a July interest rate rise on Thursday while continuing to provide bank...

Nemat Shafik, who took over as IMF Deputy Managing Director in April, says she has been surprised by the vigor of internal policy debate at the IMF. "...

ATHENS - Fitch pushed Greece's credit rating deeper into junk territory on Friday, warning of even further downgrades if the EU and the IMF do not...