More needs to be done, and done more quickly, to restore confidence so that lending to businesses can be revived and a crippling recession ended

Finance minister says EFSF loan is his preferred option for assistance as time runs out for Cyprus's second-biggest lender to meet capitalisation rules

The commodity traders says moves by the government to nationalise one of its mines would endanger foreign investment in the crucial sector

IMF chief says leaders need to tackle crisis with resumption of bond buying by the ECB and the pumping of bailout money directly into teetering banks

Move to stop using leather in football boots and trainers because it is viewed as such an environmentally damaging product

Announcement is the culmination of a four-month review, and an even longer period of contemplation of what it means to be a large trading-oriented bank

McGuinness, deputy first minister of Northern Ireland, paves way for historic handshake between a Sinn Féin representative and the monarch

Fifteen of the world's biggest lenders were downgraded by Moody's, adding to pressure on their borrowing costs and questions over their business model

Microsoft unveils its new tablet and others fix broken models

Goldman Sachs, Templeton and BlackRock plan to invest minimum of $100m in Russian companies that make at least $500m in annual revenues