Government Debt

LONDON (Reuters) - Spain's borrowing costs will rise if its credit rating is cut as much as market prices imply. The cost of insuring against a Spanish default suggests investors expect another cut in its sovereign ratings, to junk, according to...

* C$ at C$1.0311 vs US$, or 96.98 U.S. cents * US$ strengthens near 10-mth high on Fed QE debate * Bond prices rise across curve By Solarina Ho TORONTO, May 17 (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar weakened to its softest level against its U.S. counterpart...

BERNE (Reuters) - Switzerland outlined plans on Friday to reform the way it taxes companies as it seeks to counter criticism from Brussels while trying to remain attractive to the many multinationals based in the country. The Swiss have lured thousands...

With community colleges turning students away for lack of available slots, Latinos are projected to face disproportionately higher workforce training gaps, a study released Friday found. That means lower wages over the lifetime of an estimated 840,000...

By Paul Taylor PARIS, May 17 (Reuters) - Turkey's achievement of investment-grade status crowns a decade of rapid growth, financial stability and political reform by a "tiger" economy on the seam of Europe and Asia, but the rising power still faces...

PARIS (Reuters) - Turkey's achievement of investment-grade status crowns a decade of rapid growth, financial stability and political reform by a "tiger" economy on the seam of Europe and Asia, but the rising power still faces pitfalls in a dangerous...

California’s pace of job creation slowed in April, as employers added 10,300 jobs in April, nevertheless pushing the state’s unemployment rate down to 9% from 9.4% the month before. Employers had added twice as many jobs in March as they did...

In the 1964 U.S. Supreme Court case Jacobellis v. Ohio, Justice Potter Stewart wrote a concurring opinion he hoped would establish a legal standard that protected every American's right to free speech yet guarded “community standards” against “hard core...

(James Saft is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own) By James Saft May 16 (Reuters) - Quantitative easing may well be pushing investors to hold more cash rather than risk assets, blunting its impact as monetary policy. Known as the...

ALBION, Mich. (AP) — Albion Public Schools no longer is offering students a high school education. The school board has decided that beginning this fall, only students in kindergarten through eighth grade will be taught by the district. It voted...

(Reuters) - Quantitative easing may well be pushing investors to hold more cash rather than risk assets, blunting its impact as monetary policy. Known as the portfolio rebalancing channel, the thinking behind QE rests partly on the assumption that buying...

By Kevin Yao BEIJING, May 17 (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping has taken charge of drawing up ambitious reform plans to revitalise the economy, sources close to the government said, shunning policy stimulus for fear it could worsen local...