Four years later, sentiment is mired at recessionary levels, in spite of serious attempts to break free. Are we now psyched out, resigned to a gloomy future, or is there light at the end of this long, dark tunnel?

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* German banks' use of ECB funds drops to 49.5 bln end-Jan * Banks from euro zone core pay back 3-yr loans early * Itali...

After the euphoria from the Spanish bailout ends, look for sovereign bond yields to once again rise, along with credit default swaps on that debt, and for global markets to continue lower. There is simply no magic bullet or elixir that can save Europe from a tremendous amount of pain.

LONDON — The 17 countries that use the euro are facing the highest unemployment rates in the history of the currency as recession once again spr...

Is your money market account stuck in a rut? If so, you're not alone. Money market rates have been locked into a long and steady descent for a few years now. Finally, though, there are signs that this could change in the months ahead.

In the Financial Times, Stein Ringen, a professor of sociology at Oxford, takes a lash to forecasting-happy economists, this time over the eurozone. The column provides a lesson in how difficult it is to resist the allure of prediction and the appeal of the simple dichotomy.

WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama assured Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti on Thursday that the United States w...

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.

For the Romney campaign, Europe has taken over from China as the punching boy that represents the foreign other. In reality, to say or suggest that Europe has nothing to do with the American economy or American job growth is to live in pre-globalized fantasy land.

ROME -- No European nation is strong enough to ride out the continent's debt crisis alone, Italy's new premier insisted Saturday, urging fellow EU mem...

The number of unemployed people in the eurozone reached its highest level since the creation of the euro in 1999, according to The Financial Times, st...

Despite their job description, European banks are shying away from lending, and it may be hurting the European economy. European banks parked a nea...

Over the long term, governments must commit to credible non-discretionary rules of fiscal and financial behavior. Last week's agreement is just a start.

As the eurozone crisis drags on, calls are growing louder for a big bailout from the European Central Bank. Yet the fate of the euro -- and possibly t...

As fears grow that Europe will slip into a recession amid growing financial problems, some U.S. states are more at risk of feeling the repercussions o...

Two weeks after European leaders trumpeted an agreement to expand a bailout fund they said would finally become large enough to prevent major countrie...

WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund is sharply downgrading its outlook for the U.S. economy through 2012 because of weak growth and con...

The Chinese could quite easily sort out Europe in one fell swoop. Why would China get involved in Europe's mess though? In short, it is not in China's interest for Europe to fail.