Spanish treasury placed treasury bills valued at 2.510 billion euros (2.663 billion U.S. dollars) on the market on Tuesday at very low interest rates and registering a high demand of more than 8.270 billion euros.
U.S. stocks closed mixed Tuesday, as investors were closely watching the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) two-day meeting.
The U.S. dollar fell against most major currencies on Tuesday as investors were closely watching the Federal Reserve’s two-day policy meeting.
Japan posted a goods trade deficit of 424.6 billion yen in February, down 47.3 percent from a year earlier, the government said Wednesday.
The Portuguese government recently revealed it is planning to pay its 14-billion-euro IMF debt early to take advantage of low borrowing costs for European peripheral governments.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew on Tuesday warned of the risk for eroded U.S. role in international institutions if Congress failed to ratify reforms of related institutions, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The eurozone annual inflation rate rose to minus 0.3 percent in February from minus 0.6 percent in January, the European Union (EU) statistics office Eurostat said Tuesday.
BRUSSELS,March 17(Xinhua)–The employment rate in the 18-member euro zone increased by 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2014 compared with the previous quarter,the statistical office of the European Union(EU)said Tuesday y.
YEREVAN,March 17(Xinhua)–The World Bank decided on Tuesday to grant a loan worth 30 million U.
Noble Energy discovered the gas field about 85 kilometers off Cyprus’s southern shores. He said the government’s plans involve both bringing the gas to Cyprus and sales to third parties.