RBS ditches investment bank in fresh jobs cull

25 days 10 hrs 22 mins ago

LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland abandoned ambitions to be a top global investment bank and...

Samsung may consider alliance with Olympus: source

25 days 10 hrs 47 mins ago

SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) - South Korea's Samsung Electronics is open to forging an alliance with Japan'...

Insight: At the sharp end of Iranian sanctions

25 days 16 hrs 23 mins ago

(Reuters) - Tehran factory worker Mohammad Varamini lost his job of 14 years when rising energy cost...

Forex trade emails cast doubt on SNB's Hildebrand

27 days 13 hrs 10 mins ago

ZURICH (Reuters) - The supervisory council of the Swiss National Bank forced Philipp Hildebrand to s...

Greek bond swap talks progress but no deal: deputy finmin

27 days 13 hrs 15 mins ago

ATHENS (Reuters) - Talks on a bond swap between Greece and creditor banks have made progress but the...

China trade growth slows to 2-year lows in December

27 days 14 hrs 9 mins ago

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's exports and imports grew at their slowest pace in more than two years in...

Olympus sues execs over scandal, shares surge

27 days 15 hrs 39 mins ago

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's disgraced Olympus Corp is suing its president and 18 other executives, pas...

Top Obama aide Daley steps down, budget chief takes over

28 days 2 hrs 32 mins ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama announced an election year shake-up at the White House...

Retail sales weak, jobless claims up last week

25 days 10 hrs 46 mins ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Retail sales rose at the weakest pace in seven months in December and first-t...

Yields fall sharply at Spanish, Italian debt sales

25 days 12 hrs 26 mins ago

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain and Italy spread cheer through euro zone markets on Thursday with solid deb...

EU, Japan prepare for Iran oil embargo

27 days 13 hrs 5 mins ago

TEHRAN/VIENNA (Reuters) - Europe and Japan moved ahead on Tuesday in planning for punitive cuts in o...

Romney on brink of New Hampshire win despite late attacks

27 days 13 hrs 13 mins ago

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Mitt Romney is poised to take a big step toward the Republican...

Syria's Assad vows "iron fist," mocks Arab League

27 days 13 hrs 52 mins ago

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad vowed on Tuesday to strike "terrorists" with an ...

SEC to put U.S. audit watchdog under microscope

27 days 15 hrs 4 mins ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. securities regulators will question the top U.S. audit watchdog about hi...

Exclusive: Head of China's CIC tipped as next finmin

27 days 15 hrs 47 mins ago

BEIJING (Reuters) - The head of China's $410 billion sovereign wealth fund is the front-runner to be...