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Financial Times editor Lionel Barber previews the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He tells economics editor Chris Giles ...

Joel Cohen on how the new movie compares to the real prosecution of fraudster Jordan Belfort.

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Craig Willy, an EU affairs writer and a journalist with the German Press Agency (DPA), writes in a blog post that Economic development in C...

Reuters TV: Anna Barnes was adopted from Russia when she was seven and brought to the US, only to find herself moved around the country ag...

We reported on Thursday that the Irish government choreographed what it termed an "emergency Cabinet meeting" in advance of an...

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The Week magazine says Wednesday night's popular US 'Daily Show' hosted by Jon Stewart focused on JPMorgan Chase, which agreed ...

Paul Collier is the co-director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University and professor of economics and public p...

President Obama nominates Dr. Janet Yellen to succeed Ben Bernanke as chair of the Federal Reserve. Dr. Yellen has served in leadership po...

Financial Times Ireland correspondent Jamie Smyth speaks to Enda Luddy, head of the Dublin office of property advisers CBRE, about his pred...

Feargal O'Rourke, head of tax at the Irish unit of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the Big 4 accounting firm, writes in The Irish Times ...

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Apple's seen its market share in China dwindle as homegrown smartphone makers crank out feature-packed budget models. Could the launch...

Vladimir Putin, Russian president, has looked gloomier than usual in recent times. In June, The New Yorker reports a television reporte...

China executes far more people than the rest of the world combined, but numbers have fallen dramatically in recent years. The Economist es...