The euro extended gains against the dollar to hit a session high on Thursday after European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet said the euro zone economy will recover at a gradual pace.
World stocks slid on Thursday following the Federal Reserve's decision to keep interest rates near zero for an extended period and ahead of policy decisions by the European Central Bank and Bank of England.
European Union competition regulators urged U.S. carmaker General Motors on Wednesday to draft a recovery plan for its European arm, Opel, that would ensure its long-term viability.
European Union leaders resolved a funding dispute on Friday to agree a negotiating position for talks on a global deal to combat climate change.
The United States and European Union pledged on Tuesday to work to reduce regulatory barriers that impede trade across the Atlantic, but said a free-trade pact was not in the cards right now.
Emerging market and Japanese shares fell sharply on Tuesday after an overnight sell off on Wall Street, but the retreat failed to boost the dollar which fell after the previous sessions' gains.
A Chinese report saying Beijing should increase its holdings of euros and yen in its foreign reserves knocked the already battered dollar on Monday while global stocks sought to recover from last week's weakness.
European environment ministers agreed a proposal on Wednesday to curb global emissions from planes and ships by 10 percent and 20 percent respectively over the next decade, two EU diplomats said.
The European Union is taking too long to get up to 12 carbon capture and storage demonstration plants operating by 2015, RWE npower's head of environmental strategy told a carbon conference on Wednesday.
Recent trading patterns broke at least temporarily on Wednesday with both the dollar and world stocks slipping, the latter weakened particularly by falling emerging markets.
Talks on a new U.N. climate deal stumbled on Tuesday when European Union finance ministers failed to agree funds for poor countries and India reiterated demands for aid to help curb its emissions.
U.S. automaker Ford Motor Co may beat consensus estimates in the third quarter, an analyst at Barclays said, while raising his outlook for the quarter and upgrading the stock to equal weight from underweight.
The European Union announced Monday that a majority of EU states agreed to create a €280 million ($418 million) fund to help dairy farmers cope with the impact of low prices.
European Union states are struggling to agree on a common stance for a U.N. climate pact in Copenhagen in December, after leading the way among rich nations, draft documents indicated on Friday.
Sales at U.S. retailers fell in September, but rose excluding motor vehicles for a second straight month in September, raising cautious optimism consumer spending could support the economic recovery.
European shares followed Wall Street higher on Monday on optimism about the third-quarter earnings season, while the dollar gained for the second session in a row.
Polish President Lech Kaczynski signed the European Union's reform treaty into law on Saturday, leaving the Czech Republic as the only country still to ratify the document.
Canadian hedge funds may lose more than 20 percent of their business if the European Union approves a proposed directive restricting foreigners' ability to sell into the EU, a top fund manager said on Thursday.
Fifteen million European buildings should have eco-friendly renovations over the next decade to cut energy use, with builders and architects re-educated to do the job, a draft EU report says.
Czech President Vaclav Klaus raised a new obstacle to the European Union's Lisbon reform treaty on Thursday, telling EU president Sweden he wants a footnote added to the document before signing it into force.
The European Central Bank kept its main refinancing rate unchanged at a record low of 1.0 percent on Thursday, as expected by economists.
The European Central Bank is expected to keep interest rates at a record-low 1.0 percent on Thursday and its head Jean-Claude Trichet will probably caution against high hopes of a speedy economic recovery.
