Manage The Numbers - Financial Crisis

Financial Crisis

Royal Bank of Scotland to cut jobs, close branches

Dec 1, 2017

The Royal Bank of Scotland says it will eliminate hundreds of jobs and close 259 branches

Nov 30, 2017

Left Green leader made head of Iceland's new government

Leader of Iceland's Left Green Movement named prime minister in Nordic island nation's new coalition government

Nov 30, 2017

4 finance ministers seek job as eurozone chief

Portugal's finance minister Mario Centeno is seen as the frontrunner among 4 candidates to become head of the group of 19 countries which share the euro currency

Nov 30, 2017

Eurozone recovery fueling jobs but wages and prices lag

Official figures show that the unemployment rate in the 19-country eurozone has fallen to its lowest level since January 2009, further evidence that the buoyant economic recovery across the region is being felt in most corners of the labor market

Supreme Court wrestles with whistleblower protection issue

Nov 28, 2017

The Supreme Court seems reluctant to take a broad view of whistleblower protections in financial sector

UK banks seen more resilient to shocks _ even 'hard Brexit'

Nov 28, 2017

Britain's central bank says the country's top lenders can withstand economic shocks even more severe than what they experienced during the global financial crisis

AP FACT CHECK: Bank sector not in ruins, despite Trump beef

Nov 27, 2017

AP FACT CHECK: Trump's beef that federal agency has devastated banks is unsupported by sector's healthy numbers

How Powell could differ from Yellen: Nominee faces hearing

Nov 27, 2017

3 questions: Fed nominee Jerome Powell likely to be pressed on rates, communications, regulations

Venezuela president taps general as head of state oil firm

Nov 26, 2017

President Nicolas Maduro has tapped a high-ranking general to lead Venezuela's struggling state oil company

Behind the Croatian bankruptcy that's shaking the Balkans

Nov 26, 2017

Ivica Todoric will no longer be living in his sprawling 16th century castle overlooking the Croatian capital, flying in his private helicopter to his luxurious coastal villa or taking his yacht for a spin in the Adriatic