15 Jan 2013

European leaders declaring they have gained the upper hand in the three-year-old debt crisis are sharpening efforts to channel a rebound in financial markets to an economic recovery to chip away...

4:16AM
9 Jan 2013

Record unemployment and fraying social welfare systems in southern Europe risk creating a new divide, the European Union warned yesterday as figures showed joblessness across the 17 countries that...

4:08AM
22 Dec 2012

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti resigned on Friday with his political plans still in doubt, paving the way for early elections next year in a lynchpin eurozone state still mired in recession....

3:08AM
11 Dec 2012

Crushed by an austerity squeeze and towering unemployment, millions of Europeans joined the ranks of the newly poor this year in a crisis that showed no mercy for the old, women or children.

2:55AM
11 Dec 2012

Mainland exports growth last month slowed unexpectedly as shipments to Europe and the United States fell amid fading holiday demand, adding more uncertainty to China's economic outlook.

2:55AM
7 Dec 2012

The European Central Bank lowered its economic and inflation forecasts, and president Mario Draghi said weakness would persist into next year, leaving the door ajar for further interest-rate cuts...

3:23AM

One after another they are calling in sick. First, Portugal and Poland and now, short of an economic miracle, Cyprus and Greece.

4:24AM

Euro-zone joblessness hits record 11.7pc

3:07AM

China's leadership team revealed

2:35AM

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