Biggest winners of single currency's decline are multinationals with a large cost base in Europe but a high proportion of sales outside eurozone

The Swedish private equity group has paid €220m in a bid to become a broader enterprise IT software business to challenge leading global companies

Anecdotes thrown up such as McKillen's meeting on a yacht in south of France with U2's Bono and Prince Waleed bin Talal to finalise sale of Savoy

Number of carmakers' shares on loan has risen, as traders bet that slowing growth will hurt even the continent's profitable producers

A number of lenders in a sector that prides itself on establishing personal relationships with customers has begun ‘managing out' clients

Few Swedish companies have complained about the strength of their currency, because many have benefited from pushing production abroad

Europe's steelmakers, like their iron ore suppliers, have been hit hard by the crisis. ThyssenKrupp is fighting back.

Governments have invested about $1.7tn in financial institutions in the past four years, compared with $1.8tn in global privatisation assets since 1981

Only three property transactions were registered in the country during the second quarter, down from 58 deals in the previous quarter

Italy's largest electricity company by revenue says a new tax introduced late last year has helped drag down first-half net profit by 29 per cent