General secretary of the Metallurgical Workers Federation Employees (FIOM) Maurizio Landini delivers a speech on October 21, 2011 at Piazza de Popolo in Rome. Tens of thousands of people joined a union-organised ...

Slovenian Prime Minister Alenka Bratusek gives a press conference to present reforms and financial stabilisation programs in Ljubljana on May 9, 2013. Slovenia on Saturday said it was confident its newly-adopted ...

A worker at Galenika, a major Serbian pharmaceutical company, sorts packages of Bensedin anti-depressant pills on October 23, 2009. Serbian police on Saturday arrested eight people suspected of embezzling ...

In the past few weeks, Sir Alex Ferguson, the longest-serving and most successful football manager of modern times, and Paul Walsh, one of the longest-serving and most successful CEOs in the FTSE 100, ...

Intuitively you would think it is easier to bang the drum for investing when the market is testing new highs.

'When the music stops,” Chuck Prince famously observed back in mid-2007, “things will get complicated”.

PARIS (Reuters) - More than 8,000 French households' tax bills topped 100 percent of their income last year, the business newspaper Les Echos reported on Saturday, citing Finance Ministry data. The newspaper ...

PARIS (Reuters) - More than 8,000 French households' tax bills topped 100 percent of their income last year, the business newspaper Les Echos reported on Saturday, citing Finance Ministry data. The newspaper ...

PARIS (Reuters) - The French stock market authority has found LVMH(LVMH.PA) secretly bought shares in rival Hermes(HRMS.PA) to build a stake, and not merely make a financial investment as the luxury group ...

By Ros Krasny WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cybersecurity professionals know a myriad of ways hackers can try to wreak havoc on critical infrastructure or infiltrate corporations to steal or spy, but it is the ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland is on the brink of a deal to settle a long-running dispute with U.S. authorities over Swiss banks accused of helping wealthy Americans evade billions of dollars of tax, the ...

HSBC’s chief global economist has written a compelling but dark account of the challenges facing the West. Philip Aldrick considers the chilling claims.

PARIS (Reuters) - France has received approval from the U.S. Pentagon to buy two Reaper drones for intelligence gathering, and now only needs backing from Congress, Le Monde newspaper said on Saturday. ...

Pakistan is set to become the fifth Asian country to use China's domestic satellite navigation system, which was launched as a rival to the US satnav system. The Beidou or Compass system started providing ...

Critics ridiculed European Union bureaucrats on Saturday for taking time off fighting the euro zone's debt crisis to impose strict new rules on how restaurants serve olive oil. From Jan. 1, 2014, eateries ...

Sir Roger Carr is in pole position to become the next chairman of BAE Systems, the British defence giant.

The website and Twitter account of the Financial Times have been hacked, apparently by activists who support the Syrian government. The Syrian Electronic Army claimed responsibility for the attack, in ...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's second-largest lender Piraeus Bank (BOPr.AT) has hired four international investment banks as advisers on its 7.33 billion euro (£6.2 billion) share issue, two bankers close ...

Slovenia said it was confident its newly-adopted action plan would stabilise public finances and lead to an economic recovery, a day after ratings agency Fitch downgraded the crisis-hit country. "The ...

Sir Roger Carr, the President of the CBI, has emerged as the leading candidate to chair defence contractor BAE Systems. I understand that Sir Roger, who is about to end his two-year term at the helm of ...

By Sujata Rao LONDON (Reuters) - A broad collapse of company profits in the developing world shows no sign of abating, forcing investors to tilt portfolios towards sectors such as healthcare or consumer ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Alpine, the Austrian unit of Spanish construction group FCC , will hold talks with its owners on how to meet its financing needs and has many options open, Chief Executive Arnold Schiefer ...

India faces at least "a one-in-three" chance of losing its prized sovereign grade rating, global ratings agency Standard and Poor's has warned, in another blow to the scandal-tainted Congress ...

This file photo shows a Foxconn recruitment point in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong province, pictured on February 22, 2013. Three Foxconn workers have committed suicide at a factory in Zhengzhou in ...

Wind turbines are pictured in Morocco's Tarfaya wind farm on May 14, 2013. Morocco is ploughing ahead with a programme to boost wind energy production, particularly in the southern Tarfaya region, where ...

Reuters Market Eye - The BSE Sensex runs the risk of some consolidation after indexes ended at their highest close since November 2010 on Friday. Earnings will be key, with Coal India Ltd (COAL.NS), State ...

By Swati Pandey and Harichandan Arakali MUMBAI/BANGALORE (Reuters) - A breach of security at two payment card processing companies in India that led to heists at cash machines around the world has reopened ...

Police patrol outside a Walmart store in California on November 23, 2012. India's investigation into whether Walmart may have bribed Indian officials to gain wider access to the country's vast market has ...

Traditional olive oil jugs are to be banned from restaurants across Europe following a decision in Brussels. The European Commission has declared that only non-refillable, pre-packaged factory bottles ...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Tata Motors Ltd (TAMO.NS) said its subsidiary TML Holdings Pte Ltd had issued and allotted S$350 million of senior notes due 2018. The notes carry an interest rate of 4.25 percent, Tata ...

India faces at least "a one-in-three" chance of losing its prized sovereign grade rating, global ratings agency Standard and Poor's has warned, in another blow to the scandal-tainted Congress ...

Refillable olive oil bottles in eateries across Europe are set to be banned, to stop restaurateurs topping them up with cheaper substitutes. The European Commission said that from 2014, restaurant customers ...

By Xiaoyi Shao and Michael Martina BEIJING (Reuters) - China's housing inflation accelerated to its fastest pace in April in two years, driven by a jump in prices in Beijing and Shanghai, complicating ...