Policy loosening by a trio of major central banks failed to impress investors on Friday, pushing Spanish and Italian borrowing costs close to levels reached before last week's EU summit took measures

Brent crude remained steady at $100 per barrel on Wednesday as weak global economic data fuelled expectations of a stimulus response by central banks, and as supply disruption worries on rising tensio

Some of the world's most prominent central bankers may have to hope the pen is as mighty as the sword.

With the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and other authorities in industrialised coun

Asian central bankers have two main choices for coping with Europe's debt crisis: Wait it out and hope for a safe resolution, or take out an insurance policy in the form of an interest rate cut.

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Asia's emerging economies will grow robustly into 2012, led once again by China, although troubles in the United States, Europe and Japan will clip their momentum, the Asian Development Bank said in a