A surge in euro-area sovereign bond spreads slowed on Friday as traders bet the European Central Bank will be forced to support the region’s more-indebted members by delivering fewer interest-rate ...

The longer you have to prepare for a disaster, the likelier you are to walk away from it mostly intact. Tornadoes can spin up in minutes, barely giving you time to hustle to a cellar or bathtub.

Swiss Economy Minister Guy Parmelin announced his resignation, saying he will leave office at the end of the year, when his one-year term as the country’s rotating president also ends.

Euro-area inflation quickened more than expected to the highest in three years, bolstering expectations that the European Central Bank will lift interest rates further.

The resurgence in oil and gas prices drove up UK businesses’ inflation expectations last month with firms planning to pass on cost increases to consumers and take a hit to profit margins.

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Rodrigo Paz, Bolivia’s first investor-friendly president in more than 20 years, wants global miners to extract the nation’s ...

South Africa delayed by six months a request for proposals from private companies to build transmission lines, further slowing the expansion of the country’s electricity infrastructure. The ...

Nidec Corp. is in talks with MUFG Bank Ltd. and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. to renew committed credit lines that currently total ¥600 billion ($3.8 billion), the company said on Thursday.

世界のクレジット市場で警戒感が表れ始めている。記録的な借り入れやインフレが続く中で、企業のバランスシートを巡る懸念が強まり、クレジット資産を安全な逃避先とする姿勢は後退している。 世界の社債スプレッド（上乗せ利回り）は今週、約5ベーシスポイント（bp ...