Even as officials move to rein in banks, one chunk of Citigroup keeps expanding -- with the U.S.'s help: its Global Transaction ... Read and comment | Read original article

The EU's newest and poorest member state will launch its bid to join the euro at the end of January, but is increasingly fearful... Read and comment | Read original article

U.K. Prime Minister Brown will announce his senior election campaign team and outline some strategy on Monday, as he looks to ad... Read and comment | Read original article

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will place a vast swath of L.A. city government under a former private-sector executive charged with ... Read and comment | Read original article

The campaign to combat climate change is morphing, at least politically, into an economic-development drive with an environmenta... Read and comment | Read original article

Chávez's decision to devalue the bolivar and impose a new currency regime may paper over some growing cracks in the economy... Read and comment | Read original article

As central bankers gather in Basel for their annual meeting, the mood is a mixture of guarded optimism about the recovering fina... Read and comment | Read original article

An economic adviser to President Barack Obama, characterizing the 85,000 jobs lost in December as a "setback," said the U.S. mus... Read and comment | Read original article