European Central Bank President Mario Draghi is set to will face tough questions Thursday over the rapid rise in the value of the euro and its effect on Europe's economic recovery after its...

In December, the number of unemployed people in stricken countries like Greece and Spain continued to increase. The highest increases were registered in Greece (19.7% to 26.8% between October 2011 and...

Forget the West, focus on China   With all the worries over the US fiscal position, the eurozone’s future and the stimulus-versus-austerity debate, it’s all too easy to lose...

House prices, as measured by the House Price Index (HPI), fell by 2.5% in the euro area and by 1.9% in the EU in the third quarter of 2012 compared with the same quarter of the previous year,...

Throughout the past months, this paper and its sister papers have given space to those who were complaining about the losses in the Valletta Fund management investment they were led to make by mostly...

The Malta Stock Exchange (MSE) Index ended the opening month of the year with a further 0.87 gain following a 0.45% gain in December 2012, to close at 3,239.759 points. The local market shadowed the...

Traffic for 2013 at Malta Airport continued on the trend outlined in the previous nine months, with record figures for both passenger movements and average seat load factor registered in...

Standard & Poor downgraded Malta’s rating to BBB+ in January 2013. The rating had already slipped from AA in December 2011 to A- in January 2012. This was mainly due to two factors. The...

Ireland's red-eyed lawmakers have voted to dissolve one of the country's "bad banks" in an emergency measure designed to pave the way for a new debt-repayment deal with the European...

    Cruise watchers looking back at the industry's past year say the Concordia disaster affected everything from prices to safety drills to first-time cruisers, but bookings appear...