Businesses and individuals who claim BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico cost them money have been paid more than $1 billion through the company's class-action settlement...

The European Central Bank has left its benchmark interest rate unchanged at a record low of 0.75 percent even though the economy in the euro area remains stuck in recession.   Markets were...

Taxi drivers across France are putting on the brakes to clog traffic, slow access to airports and force would-be passengers to find alternate transport in a strike over government...

Bank deposits in Malta grew by €33.12m while credit issued to residents of Malta shrunk by €32.3m over the month of September, the Central Bank reported yesterday.   In September,...

Having the right tools at hand to be able to effectively analyse mountains of data and information is critical for businesses to take the right decisions and the right time. This is where business...

While the ongoing difficulties in the eurozone and the new problems generated by the global economic and financial crises have dominated the headlines and the political agenda in recent years,...

A decade ago, The Economist came up with a heading and article that said that Germany was “the sick man of Europe”.   The Germans have not forgotten that slight, which still...

The Malta Stock Exchange (MSE) ended the last month of 2012 on an upbeat tone as it increased by 0.45% in the month of December. This therefore added on to the positive result for the year, as the...

The political theorist John H. Schaar opined, “The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating.” Schaar argues that every individual must make responsible choices in...

Busy, congested, stressful. This is how the world's first subway system was depicted by London newspapers in 1863. It's a situation that would be familiar to nail-biting passengers of the...