Obama administration officials struggled Wednesday to defend their initial statements that the Boeing 787 Dreamliner is safe while promising a transparent probe of mishaps involving the aircraft's...

The International Monetary Fund is projecting a modest uptick in global economic growth for 2013. But an IMF report released Wednesday also warns that problems in the eurozone and the United States...

The euro area failed to reduce its overall government debt in the third quarter of last year, despite efforts by several of the bloc's 17 countries to improve their finances by cutting spending...

Governor of the Central Bank of Malta (CBM), Professor Josef Bonnici, announced during the Institute of Directors Conference held at the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) on January 17 that...

Leading world bankers at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, are on the defensive amid demands to regulate their industry more closely.   Bankers have been widely blamed for the...

Cyprus insists it will resist privatizing state-owned companies, even if its public debt burden is deemed too heavy to bear once it receives an international bailout package.   Cyprus is...

A group of 11 European Union countries are set to get the green light to push ahead with the introduction of a financial transaction tax, Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan said...

Japanese and U.S. investigators began a probe into the maker of the lithium ion batteries used in Boeing's grounded 787 jets.   Tsutomu Nishijima, a spokesman for GS Yuasa, the battery...

    The Dutch finance minister was poised on Monday to take over as head of the eurogroup, the group of the 17 eurozone finance ministers, which would give him one of the top jobs in...

The outgoing president of the eurozone finance ministers' meetings says Cyprus cannot receive a financial bailout before March.   Jean-Claude Juncker said Monday before a gathering of...