French minister attacks ArcelorMittal

French minister attacks ArcelorMittal
Paris sends conflicting signals on reform
Carney handed job to shake up BoE
Schapiro to step down as head of SEC
White House warns of $200bn consumption fall
Catalonia vote leaves Mas with dilemma
Berlusconi set for comeback, claim allies
Morsi refuses to give ground on decree
History weighs on South Korean poll
Israel’s Barak to retire from politics

Posted: 26 Nov 2012 10:55 AM PST

Lakshmi Mittal to meet François Hollande for emergency talks after the industry minister Arnaud Montebourg stepped up dispute with steel group

Paris sends conflicting signals on reform

Posted: 26 Nov 2012 09:52 AM PST

France's finance minister and anti-globalisation industry minister are at odds over how to transform the country's economic structures

Carney handed job to shake up BoE

Posted: 26 Nov 2012 11:34 AM PST

Mark Carney, Canada's central bank chief, will take over next July in a surprise move that makes a foreigner the most important unelected UK official

Schapiro to step down as head of SEC

Posted: 26 Nov 2012 12:54 PM PST

Mary Schapiro, the chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, announces that she is stepping down in December

White House warns of $200bn consumption fall

Posted: 26 Nov 2012 11:42 AM PST

The White House warns that the failure to avert higher taxes on middle-class families in the talks would sharply cut economic output next year

Catalonia vote leaves Mas with dilemma

Posted: 26 Nov 2012 05:39 AM PST

Results of the Catalonia regional election leave the regional president, with a dilemma over who to pick as his coalition partner

Berlusconi set for comeback, claim allies

Posted: 26 Nov 2012 09:58 AM PST

Supporters of the 76-year-old media mogul saw the former PM's attempted comeback as his answer to the chaos reigning within his People of Liberty party

Morsi refuses to give ground on decree

Posted: 26 Nov 2012 12:56 PM PST

Egypt's Islamist president offered little by way of compromise in a meeting with senior judges, saying new edict will apply only to 'acts of sovereignty'

History weighs on South Korean poll

Posted: 26 Nov 2012 01:14 AM PST

Partisan attitudes are weakening but the legacy of her father's military regime and its links to business hang over Park Geun-hye as she seeks election

Israel’s Barak to retire from politics

Posted: 26 Nov 2012 03:09 AM PST

Israeli defence minister and former prime minister Ehud Barak announces his retirement from politics at the January general election