* Underlines need to restore growth over cutting debts * Japan escapes criticism over currency policy * Communique harde...

* IMF endorses giving Greece more time to meet targets * Germany says ditching debt-cutting goals hurts confidence * Dev...

WASHINGTON, June 17 (Reuters) - The Group of Seven industrialized economies said it was in "all our interests" for Greece to remain in the euro zone...

BRUSSELS, June 5 (Reuters) - Germany is likely to come under severe pressure to do more to stimulate growth and help the euro zone on a conference c...

* Canada says G7 to hold conference call on euro zone * G7 source says concern about possible Spanish bank run ...

* Annualised G7 growth seen at 1.9 pct in Q1, Q2 * No rush for central banks to start tightening By Leigh Thomas ...

(Vicky Buffery) - The outlook for the world's major economies is continuing to darken according to the latest data from the OECD published on Mond...

(Leigh Thomas) - The outlook for economic growth in developed countries has got much worse in the last three months, the OECD said on Thursday and...

BANGKOK — Asian stocks dropped sharply Monday as the first-ever downgrade of the U.S. government's credit rating jolted the global financial sys...

The world economy should expand steadily this year and next thanks mainly to prospering emerging powers, a Reuters poll showed, but fiscal trouble...

VIENNA (Alex Lawler and Barbara Lewis) - Economics, rather than politics was behind the collapse of this week's OPEC talks and the group as a whol...

LONDON (Jessica Mortimer) - The dollar hit a three-year low against a basket of currencies on Thursday as strong corporate earnings buoyed risk ap...

WASHINGTON — The United States is out of step with the rest of the world's richest industrialized nations: Its economy is growing faster than th...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global stocks rose on Friday as traders took on riskier investments following a Libya ceasefire that reduced tension in the reg...

The yen eased off its all-time high Friday as the world's major central banks lent their support, but Japan's economic troubles are far from over, exp...

WASHINGTON — The New York Federal Reserve Bank confirmed that it intervened in currency markets on Friday for the first time in more than a decade. ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Financial leaders of the world's richest countries will hold talks on Friday on ways to calm global markets roiled by Japan's nucl...

NEW YORK — The dollar dropped to a record low against the yen late Wednesday as Japan's nuclear crisis deepened. Debt woes in Europe, tension in...

Most accounts of the ministerial meeting last weekend of the Group of 20 -- 19 nations plus the European Union, together representing the world's weal...

Britain should be seen in the same category of countries as Greece and Spain, who are facing severe debt problems, a leading economist has said. Ex-I...

Group of Seven finance chiefs said they will meet less and issue fewer statements as the G-20 becomes the main arena for setting global economic polic...

Mr. Nakagawa may be Japan's worst Finance Minister ever, but that doesn't stop me from taking a moment as he leaves the world stage to bow my head in empathy.