Portugal has issued its first new government bonds since requesting (...)

A sharp drop in German business activity overshadowed an easing downturn in France in April, surveys showed today, raising concerns over a furt(...)

Bailed-out British lender HBOS was so badly run it would have failed even without the 2008 financial crisis and the regulator should consider b(...)

France missed its budget deficit target in 2012, as it will again this year, underlining the severe challenge facing President François Holland(...)

Angry Cypriots queued to withdraw money yesterday as banks reopened for the first time in nearly two weeks under a regime of strict capital con(...)

Michael Jansen The chief executive and board members of the Bank of Cyprus and Laiki Bank, the country’s two largest, were dismissed y(...)

Cyprus has postponed its parliamentary vote on a bank deposits levy until tomorrow.  Yiannakis Omirou, the speaker of parliament, said the(...)

A decision by Zimbabwe ’s official election body yesterday to uphold a ban on a leading rights group from monitoring the poll marked the(...)