Cyprus lifts all capital controls as banks recover

Cyprus is lifting the last remaining capital controls it imposed on its banking system during the financial crisis of 2013.

Cyprus GDP Upgrade Boosts Bailout Exit Plans

A European Union accounting change has improved Cyprus’s public-finance outlook more than any other euro-zone nation, raising the prospects it will exit a bailout program ahead of schedule and sell bonds this year.

G-20 finance officials decry lack of global growth, remain split on best approaches to take

WASHINGTON - World finance leaders say they are determined to attack a sluggish global economy in which growth is too weak and unemployment too high.

Cyprus sell-off fears send gold price tumbling

The price of gold fell to its lowest level in more than 18 months on Friday night amid fears that sales of the precious metal forced on Cyprus by its desperate financial plight would lead to wholesale dumping by hard-pressed countries in the coming months.

German support for euro grows, poll shows

BERLIN (Reuters) - Some 69 percent of Germans want to keep the euro, a new poll showed on Tuesday, the highest level of support since the single currency was introduced in 2002, according to the paper which commissioned it.

S&P warns risk of Cyprus default "material and rising"

Reuters) - Cyprus faces a "material and rising risk" of defaulting on its sovereign debt, especially if the euro zone and International Monetary Fund do not come up with aid, rating agency Standard & Poor's said on Wednesday.