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Byline: MATTHEW SALTMARSH EDINBURGH -- Like a number of other potential home buyers, Martin Davis, chief executive of one of the largest fund managers in Scotland, is waiting to assess [...]

EDINBURGH -- Like a number of other potential home buyers, Martin Davis, chief executive of one of the largest fund managers in Scotland, is waiting to assess the impact of [...]

LONDON -- The European Central Bank took further steps Wednesday to ease a cash crunch at the Continent's banks, as the International Monetary Fund warned that the sovereign debt crisis [...]

Inspectors from top international groups will return to Greece next week to reassess the country's progress in meeting the requirements for it to receive financial assistance, as talks ended Tuesday [...]

In a sign of increasing pessimism over the prospects for a resolution to the Greek debt crisis, investors sold some of their riskier assets in the United States and Europe [...]

Until this week, Kweku M. Adoboli was riding high, a young trader for a big bank, with a stylish apartment in a fashionable London neighborhood and a steady girlfriend. On [...]

LONDON -- The United States is slipping and emerging markets are improving, but European economies still dominate the list of the most competitive economies in the world, according to a [...]

As leaders in Europe try to contain a deepening financial crisis, they are also increasingly talking about making fundamental changes to the way their 17-nation economic union works. The idea [...]

LONDON -- Concerns about the euro zone's ability to cohesively respond to its debt crisis resurfaced Friday after talks between Greece and its foreign creditors were interrupted and the head [...]

LONDON -- The World Bank is doing better at helping poor countries fight corruption and strengthen their institutions, but it has a long way to go toward matching its own [...]

Despite a backdrop of weakening growth in the euro zone, Italy on Tuesday was able to sell a slice of debt at a lower interest rate than at its previous [...]

LONDON -- The world's largest financial institutions warned Wednesday that proposed rule changes in the European Union could encourage insurance companies to invest in riskier assets like bank debt and [...]

LONDON -- With Europe's economy mired in a debt crisis, governments in the region have been looking east for a helping hand, tapping the likes of China and Japan to [...]

LONDON -- The Swiss National Bank announced new monetary measures Wednesday to weaken the surging franc, which it regards as greatly overvalued. The announcement checked the recent surge in the [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED LONDON -- Switzerland is close to signing sweeping tax treaties with Germany and Britain intended to ensure that assets belonging to citizens of those countries held in Swiss [...]

FRANKFURT -- Once again seeking to calm market tension, the European Central Bank intervened unexpectedly in bond markets on Thursday in an effort to prevent the region's debt crisis from [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED LONDON -- British authorities said on Wednesday that they had seized the largest shipment of illicit hard drugs in the country's history, and that the seizure had led [...]

PARIS -- Just as European markets seemed to resume their normalcy after the tumult of their sovereign debt crises, the wolves are back at the door. Two weeks ago, the [...]

LONDON -- The International Monetary Fund endorsed the British government's tight budget policy and loose monetary stance on Monday, while warning that the authorities should stand ready to change course [...]

OSLO -- Tore Sing Bekkedal cowered in a bathroom for most of the 90 minutes during which a Norwegian gunman unleashed his carnage on Friday on the island of Utoya, [...]

OSLO -- When Anders Behring Breivik was not plotting mass murder and fine-tuning the bomb he detonated here last week, he was busy playing video games and blogging, listening to [...]

Data released on Thursday pointed to stagnating economic activity in the euro zone and softening output in China. In China, the vast manufacturing sector appears to have contracted in July [...]

BRUSSELS -- With European leaders poised to hold crucial talks Thursday in what one diplomat called ''the euro zone's ultimate Cinderella moment,'' officials on Monday were discussing elements that might [...]

Investors on Monday remained nervous about stress tests on European banks as well as the debt-ceiling talks in Washington, leading to a sell-off in stocks. Financial stocks led Wall Street [...]

The group representing Greece's private creditors said Sunday that progress was being made in working out the involvement of international banks in the next Greek bailout. Charles H. Dallara, the [...]

HONG KONG -- China, one of the United States's biggest creditors, urged American policy makers on Thursday to act to protect investors' interests, highlighting rising concerns around the globe about [...]

PARIS -- The biggest financial institutions in Germany followed the lead of their French counterparts Thursday by agreeing to roll over some of their holdings of Greek debt -- a [...]

The markets finally exhaled. A relief rally swept the European and American markets after an early Wednesday vote by the Greek Parliament to approve an austerity plan. The plan was [...]

European leaders inched closer Monday to an agreement that could avoid a potentially catastrophic default by Greece on billions of dollars in debt, as France proposed a plan that could [...]

PARIS -- Agriculture ministers from the Group of 20 leading economies agreed Thursday on measures intended to lift global production and improve supplies of basic foods, while mitigating price swings. [...]

BRUSSELS -- Seeking to sweeten the medicine for Greek politicians who must decide next week whether to embrace a strict austerity plan, the president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel [...]

BRUSSELS -- As European officials headed into a long weekend of critical talks over Greece's crippling debt crisis, the European Union and the International Monetary Fund said Thursday that they [...]

GENEVA -- Jean Claude Gandur, a Swiss commodities trader, made a fortune during the 1990s buying oil concessions in Africa that others did not want or could not hold. Now [...]

PARIS -- In the latest twist on its road to recovery, Saab Automobile announced a deal Monday with two Chinese companies that will take stakes in the Swedish automaker and [...]

The Finnish cellphone maker Nokia said on Thursday that its chief technology officer had taken a leave of absence and would be temporarily replaced by the head of the company's [...]

PARIS -- Putting Germany at odds with the European Central Bank and the French government, Berlin has proposed extending the maturities on Greek bonds by seven years, insisting that private [...]

PARIS -- International energy ministers and officials of nuclear agencies pledged support Tuesday for a global push to improve safety tests at nuclear power plants. The pledge emerged from a [...]

PARIS -- ''One shock away from a full-fledged crisis.'' That is how the World Bank president, Robert B. Zoellick, described the effects of the recent increase in world food prices. [...]

PARIS -- Even during a period of rising food prices and economic uncertainty, Damien Bignon, a poultry farmer in the Paris region, cannot meet the demand from local markets and [...]

PARIS -- Expressing ''serious concern'' about elevated crude oil prices, the International Energy Agency on Thursday called for an increase in world oil production. It was an unusual move that [...]

PARIS -- Nearly 70 years after the pioneering automaker Louis Renault died in a French prison, accused of collaborating with the Nazis, his grandchildren are seeking to restore his reputation [...]

PARIS -- The future of Saab Automobile was thrown into doubt yet again on Thursday when it announced that a partnership with a small Chinese automaker had collapsed. Saab has [...]

Inquiries into allegations of racism at the heart of French soccer have found no evidence that laws were broken or of discrimination by the national coach, investigators said Tuesday. The [...]

Saab Automobile, the struggling Swedish carmaker, received a lifeline on Tuesday when a Beijing company agreed to provide a loan to help restart production and open access to the booming [...]

PARIS -- For a country proud of its republican streak, France is making quite a fuss over the British royal wedding. Despite the fact that the major royal events are [...]

PARIS -- In another sign of improving health at the large French automakers, the government said on Friday that PSA Peugeot Citroen and Renault would repay ahead of schedule the [...]

The Swiss have proposed new banking rules in an attempt to improve relations with their neighbors by making it harder for other Europeans to hide money from the tax collector [...]

The price of gold rose above $1,500 an ounce on Wednesday for the first time, pushed higher by investor concerns about global inflation, government debt and turmoil in the Arab [...]

BRUSSELS -- Since the euro zone crisis got under way in earnest a year ago, various Cassandras have warned that the day would come when voters would rise up in [...]

Little more than a year after General Motors engineered a sale that saved Saab from oblivion, the carmaker is facing a fresh bout of financial troubles that threaten to spread [...]