2011-08-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

A new analysis shows that borrowing costs for the U.S. government have fallen, contrary to the prediction of some economic experts that they would markedly increase after the country's credit rating

2011-08-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

Financial markets held on to gains Friday, ending a tough week marked by wild, up and down swings in stock prices. Fears that the global economy was heading for a downturn fueled sharp declines this

2011-08-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

U.S. and European stock markets rose sharply Thursday, rebounding from steep losses the previous day as buyers drew encouragement from a better-than-expected U.S. jobs report.The Dow Jones Industrial

2011-08-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced new measures to restore order to Britain's streets and prevent the riots that have gripped the country for much of the past week from erupting again

2011-08-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

European stock markets fell in early trading Thursday, largely on concerns about the fiscal health of the continent’s banks. But the markets bounced back in the afternoon, after French and German lea

2011-08-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

France's market authority has warned that unfounded rumors are unsettling the stock market, causing bank shares to plummet.The AMF securities regulator Thursday announced a ban on short-selling on se

2011-08-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

The three major credit rating agencies have affirmed France's AAA rating even as the country's borrowing costs are increasing.Standard & Poor's, Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Ratings all sai

2011-08-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

Leaders of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have named nine of the 12 members of a committee that will be expected to find up to $1.5 trillion in savings to reduce the nation's deficit.Th

2011-08-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

Asian stocks opened lower after U.S. and European share prices dropped on news about sluggish global economies.Seoul's KOSPI index opened 3 percent lower Thursday while Tokyo's Nikkei was down nearl

2011-08-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

The U.S. central bank says America’s economic recovery has slowed, and that near-zero interest rates are expected to remain in place for another year. The statement from Federal Reserve policymakers

2011-08-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

The Asian Development Bank says evidence of slowing growth in Europe and United States will draw more investors to better-performing Asian economies. While analysts remain upbeat over Asia's economic

2011-08-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

As global stock markets have plummeted in the last few days, both Greece and South Korea have banned the short-selling of securities - the attempt by some investors to make money by betting that their

2011-08-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

London was quiet for the first time Tuesday after three straight nights of riots, but violence broke out in the northern city of Manchester.Witnesses say hundreds of rampaging youths smashed windows,

2011-08-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

Global financial markets continue to drop sharply in reaction to an unprecedented downgrade of the U.S. government's credit rating and lingering concerns about European debt problems and global econo

2011-08-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

European stock markets were volatile Monday despite the European Central Bank saying it intended to buy up government debt.European Commission spokesperson Ollie Bailly said Monday that the measures t

2011-08-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

U.S. President Barack Obama said Monday that the recent downgrade of America's credit rating by a key rating agency, and the impact that has had on global financial markets, underscores the importanc

2011-08-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

The downgrading of U.S. creditworthiness by the Standard & Poor's rating agency late last week triggered the worst losses on U.S. financial markets Monday since the 2008 global economic crisis. But,

2011-08-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

Global markets are having a negative reaction to Friday's downgrade of the U.S. credit rating by the Standard & Poors rating agency.Major Asian indexes in Tokyo, Seoul and Sydney were all down more t

2011-08-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

The U.S. government’s credit rating could be downgraded even further, according to the rating agency that removed the United States from a list of top-tier creditworthy nations.Standard and Poor’s j

2011-08-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

Residents in a north London community compared their neighborhood to a bomb site Sunday, the day after violent riots broke out between angry citizens and the police. At least 26 people were injured in

2011-08-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

The European Central Bank has announced that it will buy government bonds from Italy and Spain, in an effort to calm market fears about the euro zone debt crisis.In a statement issued Sunday, the bank

2011-08-07 所属栏目:欧美文化

Amid an avalanche of negative economic news in recent days, President Barack Obama is calling on lawmakers to pass legislation he says will put Americans back to work. The president spoke as another

2011-08-07 所属栏目:欧美文化

Part of the focus on the U.S. economy remains on the lackluster job market as millions of Americans struggle to find work.In his weekly address Saturday, U.S. President Barack Obama said the nation's

2011-08-07 所属栏目:欧美文化

Chanting “the people want social justice,” tens of thousands of Israelis packed the streets of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem for the second straight week to protest the high cost of living. They came from

2011-08-06 所属栏目:欧美文化

The credit rating agency Standard & Poor's has downgraded the U.S. credit rating for the first time ever from the country's elite AAA status to AA-plus, with a "negative outlook."In a statement late