European stock markets have been tumbling all week over fears of the damage a Greek exit from the euro zone could do to the single currency and even the European Union. Yet through it all, Germany's borrowing costs keep going down—so much ...
Being put on hold is no fun. But Vodafone Group has little choice when it comes to plans for the company's Indian operations. The Anglo-Dutch telecommunications giant is expected to list its Indian business at some point but said this week ...
SAO PAULO—The Brazilian real strengthened in intraday trading Friday after repeated interventions by the central bank reinforced the outlook the government won't let the real weaken much past BRL2.05 to the dollar.
From "Red" Ken Livingstone, the Labour Party candidate for mayor of London, to Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee for president of the United States, politicians have been getting in trouble over their taxes. With voters ...
DES MOINES—President Barack Obama on Thursday continued his assault on Mitt Romney's business experience, saying the Republican presidential hopeful's time as a private-equity executive was valuable but not sufficient for someone trying to ...
From the Reason Foundation Gov. Scott Walker leads Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett 50-42 among those likely to vote in Wisconsin's June 5 recall election, according to a new Reason-Rupe poll of 708 Wisconsin adults on cell phones and landlines.
Sen. Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.) lambasted conservatives who rallied around the Facebook Inc. co-founder who decided to give up his U.S. citizenship shortly before a stock sale that turned him into a paper billionaire, saying that the logic ...
Confusion reigns supreme. The International Monetary Fund told the U.K. this week that it should cut taxes and boost spending while also praising the fiscal consolidation of 2010, which saw a mere 1% cut from public spending. Labour and ...
NEW DELHI – India's oil minister said Friday that a decision will be taken on gasoline rates in a few days, as the federal government continues to face a barrage of criticism from political parties and consumers over the steepest-ever ...
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch)—Investors are reeling from Europe’s deepening economic crisis, but they may soon find themselves battered closer to home as the U.S. economy closes in on another debt-ceiling debate and teeters toward the edge of ...
Is House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi abandoning President Barack Obama in his effort to raise taxes on households making more than $250,000?
There are two certainties in life—death and taxes—so perhaps it should come as no surprise that an entrepreneur has tried to build a social network for dead people.