BERLIN (Reuters) - German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said only the most extreme circumstances could justify a bailout of a European Union state from within the union, and any such aid would have to be delivered bilaterally. Responding to comments from European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso about coordinated help for Greece, Schaeuble told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper there was ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo could win a deal to wipe out the bulk of its $11 billion debt in time for June celebrations marking 50 years of independence, the International Monetary Fund said on Saturday. President Joseph Kabila has sought to step up the pace of the reforms needed to secure the accord, which would ease the debt ...

Orlando, Florida (Reuters) - Regulators must be "significantly tougher" on large and complex financial firms to limit wider risks, but big firms are still needed to keep the global economy humming, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Saturday. Bernanke told an Independent Community Bankers of America conference that the problem of some firms being perceived as "too big to fail ...

The four large U.S. cities that have made it through the Great Recession with the smallest increases in unemployment, Minneapolis, Oklahoma City, Buffalo and Rochester, New York, don't have much else in common. But a government report shows they've had the smallest increases in joblessness over the past two years among cities with at least 1 million ...