Crisis in Europe Tightens Credit Across the Globe

Businesses Scramble as Credit Tightens in Europe

Europe’s worsening sovereign debt crisis has spread beyond its banks and the spillover now threatens businesses on the Continent and around the world.

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Breathtaking: World's 25 Most Beautiful Polluted Sunsets: #25 Paris, France

Breathtaking: World's 25 Most Beautiful Polluted Sunsets: #25 Paris, France

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Home Prices in 20 U.S. Cities Plunge As Industry Struggles

Residential real estate prices dropped more than forecast in the year ended September, showing the industry at the center of the 2008 financial crisis continues to struggle. READ MORE...

U.K Caught On Wrong Foot As Economic Revelation Take Hold

Osborne Says Debt Challenge Greater Than Expected

LONDON—U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne was Tuesday forced to admit for the second time this year that economic growth will be weaker and borrowing higher than he had hoped. READ MORE...

Spanish Retail Sales Crash

MADRID—Spain's retail sales fell at their fastest pace in four months in October, the country's national statistics agency INE said Tuesday, the latest indication of a likely late-year contraction in the euro zone's fourth-largest economy.

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3 Reasons Europe Is Failing To Act

Despite recent progress toward necessary fiscal reforms in Greece, Italy and Spain, bond investors have been abandoning European markets anddriving up yields. READ MORE...

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Ireland Enduring a Long Age of Austerity

Ireland enters its second year in the ungentle embrace of its bailout providers facing a further €3.8 billion ($5 billion) of budget cuts. It is by general acclamation the star pupil among the growing group of euro-zone members that have lost the confidence of bond investors, and the closest thing the currency area has to a success story.  READ MORE...

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The euro crisis: Could this be the plan?

Optimism for Euro May Be Shortlived READ MORE...

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Five lessons for making a difference in the world

But after nearly four decades of making small business “microloans” to women in the world’s poorest communities with my organization, FINCA International, I have developed a view as to what are the most important ingredients for success in social entrepreneurship READ MORE.

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