Press Review

Unwilling to cut interest rates to help restart the stalled economy, the Bank of Canada may seek to achieve the same end result Wednesday by continuing to soften its tone >>

European Union finance ministers neared an accord on a wide-ranging plan to strengthen bank capital requirements as they wrangled with U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne over proposed curbs >>

Following are the highlights of a government work report distributed to media ahead the annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC) Tuesday morning. >>

The services side of the U.S. economy has been growing at a pretty good pace for the pace three years, and there probably wasn't any slowdown in February. >>

France, Spain and Italy dragged the euro zone into a deeper downturn in February, according to business surveys that showed the chasm between these countries and prosperous Germany widening yet >>

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept the cash rate unchanged at three per cent at its March board meeting, citing a better local and overseas economic outlook. >>

Tension over the fiscal crisis eased on Monday as President Barack Obama called more opposition lawmakers to find a way to stop $85 billion in damaging budget cuts and congressional >>

Eurozone finance ministers, known collectively as the Eurogroup, are confident of agreeing a bailout for Cyprus by the end of March.  >>

China's non-manufacturing sector shrank in February, an official monthly survey showed on Sunday. >>

A Shanghai surprise is spooking markets from New York to Milan this morning, though it probably shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody who's kept tabs on China's freaky ghost >>

European leaders demanded that euro members press on with budget cuts to end the debt crisis as Italy edged closer to a new election after an anti-austerity vote last week >>

Haruhiko Kuroda, nominated to be the next head of Japan's central bank, has promised aggressive steps to achieve 2% inflation, sending Japanese shares higher.  >>

President says middle classes will suffer most and that Republican stance on taxation is 'root cause' of crisis.  >>

European leaders demanded that euro members press on with budget cuts to end the debt crisis as Italy edged closer to a new election after an anti-austerity vote last week >>

China has had more billionaires created by its stock markets this year than in the United States - 212 compared with 211 - a new survey revealed on Thursday. >>