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Bank downgrades come amid global review by Moody's as IMF says European crisis enters 'critical stage'.

Banks responded strongly to Moody's analysis, saying the ratings are backward looking.

German banks and the German branches of foreign lenders record a surge in deposits due to the banking crisis in the euro area.

Japan's Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission reported to start formal investigation into insider trading allegations weeks after "London Whale" debacle

Investment bank’s total losses for its London operations reported to be are more than double original estimates. JP Morgan also confirm suspension of share repurchases.

HSBC Holdings Plc generated a return on shareholders' equity of 10.9 percent during 2011 and it expects that by the end of 2012 it will develop a clear route towards meeting its target of 12-15 percent by the end of 2013.

As Barclays' question CEO Bob Diamond's remuneration package and his colleagues' bonus pool, the debate on executive pay, bankers' bonuses and pay legislation intensifies.

The German investment bank's profit falls well-below analyst expectations, after being hit by litigation and impairment charges.

The U.K. producer price index for home sales of manufactured products rose 3.6 percent in the year to March 2012, compared to a growth of 4.1 percent in February, according to the latest data released from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Nokia’s latest smartphone, the Lumia 900 could be the company’s final chance at making it big in the US.

British industrial output posted an unexpected fall in January after a sharp decline in oil and gas production and weaker-than-expected factory output, indicating that Britain's economic recovery could be in peril.

Taylor Wimpey, the homebuilding company, says that it is too early to judge the market for the year as a whole, but the early weeks of trading in 2012 have followed the encouraging patterns of the second half of 2011, with good visitor levels, healthy reservations and low cancellations.

Britain’s FTSE 100 index ended lower 56.40 points or 1 per cent at 5,871.51 on Wednesday, though investors digested the latest second round of a European Central Bank long term liquidity operation.

Once again the credit rating agencies are sending shivers down the markets, as they continue to cast doubt over European economies and banks.

Reports have emerged lending credence to Nokia's claim that its new Lumia 800 Windows Phone has seen the "best ever" first weeks sales recorded by a Nokia smartphone.

Dubbed by Vogue magazine earlier this year as a "rose in the desert", Asma al Assad has remained an elusive and enigmatic figure amidst her husband's continuing crackdown on protesters. Here the IBTimes profiles Syria's notorious first lady.

Recessions have shaken the world economy in more than once and each time the world has come out of it at different pace. The world can still breathe easy as the gravity of the current recession, in terms of its recovery period, has not yet surpassed the Great Depression of 1930.

The Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc. (RBS) Friday reported a decline in its third quarter profits. The much watched banking stock in the FTSE posted an operating profit of 267 million pounds which is 63 percent down for the same quarter last year.

Reports that Eurozone leaders have reached a provisional agreement on how to tackle the debt crises in the Eurozone have pushed up global stock markets.

Shares in British banks were broadly down on the FTSE 100 in morning trading following yesterday's results from HSBC.

"Is Standard & Poor's being overly pessimistic in its view on the Irish economy?" The Irish Times asked its readership to poll and the voting was a fairly close 53 percent "Yes" to 47 percent "No" by the afternoon of Friday 27 August 2010.

Willie Walsh and Willie Wonka. What do the two have in common? Whilst one is the owner and star of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the other is rather less endowed.

Shares in Lloyds Banking Group were down on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after it emerged that the part nationalised bank would no longer be offering payment protection insurance (PPI) to new borrowers.