K&L Gates has opened a new office in Brussels, Belgium, in its bid to expand its presence in Europe and has poached on two partners from McDermott Will & Emery to lead the office.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 02, 2011
Tackling Spain's dramatic unemployment rate is a priority for the country, said Spain's Secretary of State for the Economy at an investor presentation in London on Wednesday.
Samantha Nolan
Feb 02, 2011
Industrial producer prices in the eruozone surged 5.3 percent annually last year while the growth in the broader European Union was 5.9 percent, Eurostat data showed on Wednesday.
Jijo Jacob
Feb 02, 2011
Britain's Imperial Tobacco Group Plc said it made a good start to the year with underlying tobacco net revenue up 5 percent and increased cigarette and fine cut tobacco volumes.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 02, 2011
A synagogue was set on fire in Tunisia overnight and gangs rampaged through schools in the capital on Tuesday, prompting the army to fan out to calm fears of chaos after the revolt that toppled Zine al-Abdine Ben Ali.
Jack Kim
Feb 01, 2011
Airplane maker Boeing (NYSE: BA) received billions of dollars in questionable subsidies from the U.S. government according to a study by The World Trade Organization (WTO) which was presented on Monday to officials of the U.S. and the European Union (EU).
Palash Ghosh
Jan 31, 2011
European Union foreign ministers agreed on Monday to freeze the assets of Tunisia's former President Zine-al Abidine Ben Ali and his wife, an EU official said.
Jack Kim
Jan 31, 2011
The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: NPS Pharmaceuticals, DepoMed, Xenoport, Sohu.com, and Glu Mobile. The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Mattson Technology, Partner Communications, Savient Pharmaceuticals, Silicom, and CIENA.
Balasubramanyam Seshan
Jan 31, 2011
Rivals to Central African Republic leader Francois Bozize pulled their representatives off the election body on Saturday, alleging fraud after early partial results from last weekend's poll put Bozize in the lead.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jan 29, 2011
Thousands of angry Egyptians defied a curfew on Saturday for the second day in a row and stayed on the streets to push their demand that President Hosni Mubarak resign.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jan 29, 2011
Christine Lagarde, France’s finance minister, suggested that time may be near to increase the size of The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), the European Union’s financial bailout fund reserve.
Palash Ghosh
Jan 28, 2011
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of Indonesia, set out his vision for “sustainable and balanced” growth in the 21st Century, at Davos world economic forum.
Palash Ghosh
Jan 27, 2011
Grains exporter Canada and Morocco, among the region's top wheat importers, on Thursday announced the start of negotiations for a free trade agreement, Morocco's official media reported.
Jack Kim
Jan 27, 2011
In his opening speech at the Davos world economic forum in Switzerland, Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev touched on a number of subjects, including why he was late to the confab – the suicide bombing in a Moscow airport that killed 35 people.
Palash Ghosh
Jan 26, 2011
Unless the U.S. addresses [its] fiscal problem, we’re going to see a train wreck, said Nouriel Roubini.
Hao Li
Jan 26, 2011
Annual bonuses at top global banks are causing ructions that could drive a outsized round of defections as weaker profits and tougher rules widen the pay discrepancy between star performers and everybody else.
Samantha Nolan
Jan 26, 2011
Facebook's German business has run into new restrictions on what it can do with email addresses, giving users more control over what happens to the names on their contact lists.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jan 25, 2011
Uganda President Yoweri Museveni is against the United Nations' recognition of Alassane Ouattara as winner of Ivory Coast's election and wants an African Union probe into the poll, his spokesman said on Tuesday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jan 25, 2011
A faltering and uneven increase in jobs is holding back the overall economic recovery and unemployment is likely to continue at near record levels this year, the International Labour Organisation said on Tuesday.
Samantha Nolan
Jan 25, 2011
China's Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has sued Motorola to delay the sale of the latter's wireless infrastructure business to Nokia Siemens Networks. The lawsuit alleges that such a sale would possibly result in illegal transfer of Huawei's intellectual property.
Balasubramanyam Seshan
Jan 25, 2011
Global economic recovery is not resulting in job creation, as the number of the unemployed people worldwide stood at a record 205 million last year, the International Labour Organization (ILO) warned on Monday.
Shankar besta
Jan 25, 2011
Ireland plans to use some of its 24 billion euro pension reserve fund to purchase its own bonds, a move some say is akin to national cannibalism.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jan 24, 2011
