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European Union officials, having won concessions from bloc members Luxembourg and Austria over banking rules, are expected to turn their focus to Switzerland.
Friday, May 24, 2013 03:19 |
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The Social Democratic Party of Germany has a storied past, but a cloudy future, with polls showing it trailing behind the center-right Christian Democratic Union.
Friday, May 24, 2013 01:48 |
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A plan by the European Commission to bar restaurants from serving olive oil in cruets or dipping bowls was rescinded after some members expressed outrage.
Friday, May 24, 2013 01:21 |
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By Saliou Samb CONAKRY (Reuters) - One person was killed and about were 10 injured when security forces and supporters of Guinea`s president clashed with protesters marching in the capital on Thursday against planned legislative elections. President Alpha Conde`s opponents say he plans to rig the long-delayed polls due to take place on June 30. Conde took office in 2010 following the first democratic transfer of power in the mineral-rich nation since independence in 1958. ...
Friday, May 24, 2013 00:19 |
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DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co shares on Friday topped their 2010 initial public offering price, which will help the automaker`s largest shareholder, the U.S. Treasury, pare its losses. GM shares broke above $33.00, the price in the November 2010 IPO, rising as high as $33.21 in morning trading. It is the first time the stock has surpassed $33 since May 2011. So far this year GM`s stock is up 14.5 percent. The run-up in the stock price could help Treasury, which provided GM with a $49.5 billion bailout, trim losses that will likely still total billions of dollars. ...
Friday, May 17, 2013 15:49 |
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James Bullard, a member of the Federal Reserve`s policy committee, warned Europe of becoming trapped in the economic stasis from which Japan is only now emerging.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 01:50 |
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Olli Rehn, the European Union`s top economist and a focus of anger across Europe against harsh belt-tightening policies, says he is not a doctrinaire adherent to austerity measures.
Saturday, May 18, 2013 03:20 |
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By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) - All trades in American Electric Power Inc and NextEra Energy Inc in a crash that happened in the first minute of trading on Thursday will stand, the New York Stock Exchange said, following the latest in a flurry of unexplained sharp drops in the market. The stocks each dropped more than 50 percent in the first minute of trading, though ended just down slightly. The share drops were the latest such incidents for the market since the May 6, 2010, `flash crash,` a computer-driven trading glitch that caused a sudden afternoon tumble in the major U.S. ...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 22:45 |
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By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - The head of a banned British radical Islamist group who knew one of the men who hacked a soldier to death on London streets said on Thursday British foreign policy was to blame for the attack. Anjem Choudary said Michael Adebolajo - filmed with his hands covered with blood, carrying a meat cleaver and knife after attacking an off-duty soldier in broad daylight - had attended lectures run by al-Muhajiroun, Choudary`s organization, which was banned under anti-terrorism laws in 2010. ...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 18:47 |
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CONAKRY (Reuters) - Ten people were injured when security forces and supporters of Guinea President Alpha Conde clashed with protesters marching in the capital against planned legislative elections on Thursday, a hospital source said. The opposition accuses Conde of attempting to rig the long-delayed polls due to take place on June 30. Conde took office in 2010 following the first democratic transfer of power in the mineral-rich nation since independence in 1958. ...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 18:12 |
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