Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou confronted more anti-austerity protests Thursday and tested international support for his battle against debt with a new multi-billion-euro bond. Three hundred communist union members invaded the finance ministry ahead of another major rally in Athens against the socialist government's campaign to slash spending. Unionists ...

The Bank of England is set to keep its key lending rate at a record low 0.50 percent when it meets on Thursday despite Britain emerging from a record recession stronger than expected, analysts said. The BoE is also unlikely to revisit just yet its radical policy of pumping ...

Europe's main stock market dropped on Thursday as investors awaited monetary policy updates from the European Central Bank and Bank of England and developments surrounding Greece's debt and bond issue. In morning trading, London's benchmark FTSE 100 index dipped 0.16 percent to 5,524.57 points ...