Europe

The pace of the recovery in euro zone private sector business eased slightly last month, although less than originally estimated.

The Bank of England is sticking to its commitment to keep interest rates at rock-bottom until the country's recovery is more firmly established.

The euro will appreciate at a record pace this year and continue to gain in value in 2014, the European Commission predicts. 

They say money can't buy happiness, but the global financial crisis affected the happiness of those countries that were worst hit.

EU antitrust regulators are set to impose multi-million euro fines on RBS, Deutsche Bank , JPMorgan, and three other banks for suspected rigging of the Euribor interest rate benchmark.

Asian markets buckled badly on Thursday after the Federal Reserve heralded an eventual end to free money and China turned the screw on credit even as factory activity in the world's second largest economy hit a nine-month low.

Euro zone finance ministers laid out how its bailout fund can invest in troubled banks, but imposed so numerous conditions.

The country's youth unemployment rate reflects the pain caused by the crippling recession after years of austerity under its bailout.