Author : EW News Desk Team

After last week’s inconclusive Italian general elections, as well as the United States’ failure to prevent steep automatic spending cuts, markets will be looking to see how central banks...

Swiss citizens on Sunday voted to impose some of the world’s strictest rules on executive pay, forcing public companies to give shareholders a binding say on remuneration. However, critics...

Italy’s president Giorgio Napolitano is considering the creation of a second technocratic government to run the country, amid signs that the nation’s key parties would not be able to...

The U.K. government is hoping to raise as much as $98,000 by selling off part of its vintage wine collection, which is normally served to foreign heads of state...

India announced on Thursday it would seek to impose an additional tax on the country’s wealthiest individuals as well as large business. Asia’s third largest economy has been hurt...

Broad U.S. “sequester” spending cuts that take effect beginning Friday will hurt growth in the world’s largest economy and destabilise a fragile global economic recovery, the International Monetary Fund...

Iraqi officials are still nowhere close to reaching an agreement with the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region regarding oil payments owed to the central government, reported Reuters on Wednesday, with the...

Prominent business leaders in Italy have expressed alarm and fury at the nation’s political gridlock; and have urged politicians to put aside their differences in order to form a...

Authorities should drain more cash from the financial system and enhance oversight of banks’ off-balance sheet business, said the Chinese State Information Centre, as the risks of overheating outweigh...

Greece’s government has accused more than 50 leading pharmaceutical companies of cutting key medical supplies to the country, as hundreds of consumers queued desperately in front of pharmacies this...