crisis

Until recently the market had largely ignored the growing crisis in Ukraine but investors are starting to pay attention. more...

Discussing the European Central Bank and the Fed's strategies, where investors are finding opportunities, and the state of the emerging markets, with Marc Chandler, Brown Brothers Harriman. more...

Asian stock markets may suffer losses of as much as 2 percent Monday as investors shun equities, opting instead for relative safety, analysts said. more...

The U.S. is in a much better place than the rest of the world, says Alan Ruskin of Deutsche Bank AG, in discussing currencies and emerging market volatility. more...

Heavy selling across emerging market currencies has caught many investors off guard. is the market facing a repeat of last year's brutal selloff? more...

Michael Kurtz, Global Head of Equity Strategy at Nomura, says markets have been preparing themselves for a Fed taper and lists his reasons for declaring an end to the global financial crisis. more...

The Chinese yuan hit a record high against the dollar on Wednesday, a sign perhaps that Beijing is allowing the yuan to flex its muscles as a global currency. more...

The yen was soft while the euro and risk currencies held firm on Wednesday. more...

Taimur Baig, Director & Chief Economist, Global Markets Research at Deutsche Bank explains what India and Indonesia can do to to prevent a re-emergence of the 1997 Asian crisis. more...

The government's surprise decision to reimpose capital controls this week to protect the ailing rupee only served to intensify the sense of crisis afflicting the economy. more...

The euro rose on Tuesday but remained below the previous day's one-month high, having taken a hit after Germany tempered hopes that European leaders would soon come up with a quick, comprehensive solution to the euro zone's debt crisis. more...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has no concrete plans to meet top bankers ahead of the weekend's European Union summit, the chancellor's spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Monday. more...

The finance chiefs of the world's leading economies opened the door Saturday for the International Monetary Fund to play a bigger role in fighting the eurozone's escalating debt troubles. more...

For 30 years, whenever economic crises hit the world, Jean-Claude Trichet was at the centre of action. As his career draws to a close – his eight-year term as European Central Bank president ends in three weeks – the former French finance official and Banque de France governor is in the midst of...

Should we feel confident that the crisis will soon be over? No. At least, nobody now sees the euro zone crisis as a little local difficulty. It has become the epicenter of an aftershock of the global financial crisis that could prove even more destructive than the initial earthquake, writes...

Suffocating global debt problems and overreaching intervention programs will be good for the US dollar but bad for asset prices otherwise, investment guru Marc Faber said. more...

Merkel and Sarkozy pledged to recapitalize the banks by early November. Insight into the current state of the euro debt crisis, with CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera. Also, Mujtaba Rahman, Eurasia Group Analyst weighs in. more...

European Central Bank's governing council member Erkki Liikanen on Monday said it is important to recapitalize banks in the euro zone to counter the crisis which he considered as Europe's greatest since world war II. more...

Despite the significant cerebral power of those in attendance at the Barefoot Economic Summit, even if one adheres to a likely scenario of events, the outcome of euro zone debt crisis is still impossible to predict. more...

South Korean stocks extended their slide on Wednesday and the won currency remained under pressure as the government revived weekly crisis management meetings to try to stem capital flight out of its highly vulnerable financial markets.* more...