Asian shares gained on Tuesday, taking heart from Nasdaq's fresh high, while gold prices took back some lost ground after plunging more than 4 percent to five-year lows in the previous session. Financial spreadbetters predicted Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE to open about 12 points...

n">Wall Street was little changed on Monday, as a better-than-expected start to corporate earnings season boosted investor confidence, but gains were curbed by a drop in commodities. The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI rose 13.36 points, or 0.07 percent, to 18,099.81, the...

Athens (AFP) - Greek banks reopened Monday after a three-week shutdown imposed to stop a run on ATMs from crashing the financial system, but citizens woke up to widespread price hikes as part of a cash-for-reform deal with the country's creditors. The bank shutdown since June 29 is...

Greece's leftwing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras faces a showdown with rebels in his own party on Tuesday furious at his capitulation to German demands for one of the most sweeping austerity packages ever demanded of a euro zone government. Just hours after a deal that saw Greece...