Government Debt

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's economy is expected to have grown in January-March at its fastest pace in a year due to solid private consumption and a recovery in capital investment encouraged by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's recipe of aggressive monetary and...

PARIS (Reuters) - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Wednesday France needed to present a credible program of structural reforms as new data showed Europe's second largest economy slipping into a shallow recession. Barroso, who was...

(Corrects recent range of 10-year JGB yield in 20th paragraph) * Narrowing spread of JGBs, US Treasuries could stem price fall * BOJ could frontload its JGB buying to calm markets -strategist By Lisa Twaronite TOKYO, May 15 (Reuters) - A three-day...

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's economy shrank by more than expected in the first quarter, extending the country's recession to seven straight quarters and making it the longest since quarterly records began in 1970. Gross domestic product fell 0.5 percent...

"Outragaeous, if true." That's what President Obama called revelations that the IRS had been targeting conservative groups for special scrutiny. He's right �and Americans of all political persuasions should be equally outraged. According to an...

LONDON (Reuters) - Debt may be everywhere but there's a scarcity of bonds. With governments awash with debt and furiously selling new securities to fund bloated budget deficits, the idea of a bond shortage on the marketplace may sound puzzling. Yet...

Some volcanoes here in Alaska have been rumbling lately, but federal budget cuts may mean less real-time monitoring of those eruptions. Since 2008, the Alaska Volcano Observatory’s budget has been cut nearly in half, from 8-million dollars to just...

WASHINGTON — The federal deficit is shrinking more quickly than expected, and the government's long-term debt has largely stabilized for the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday in a report that could strengthen the Obama...

Even if death and taxes are the only things certain in life, state legislators say they can never be certain about death taxes. With no crystal ball and no idea when spectacularly wealthy Connecticut residents might die, state officials make an educated...

* Q1 GDP forecast +0.7 pct qtr/qtr, 2.8 pct annualised * Consumption seen +0.9 pct qtr/qtr, capex +0.7 pct * First "Abenomics" report card to show early effects * Economy seen sustaining growth in Q2 as exports recover * No growth contribution from...

About 79,000 U.S. soldiers in the region are refocusing on working with other nations in Asia and the Pacific, as well as preparing for contingency operations, with the troops being taken off war duty rotations to Afghanistan, the head of U.S. Army...

When the Fort Wayne 9-12 group was created three years ago, organizers of the conservative political group discussed whether to seek tax-exempt status. They ultimately decided against it because "we were afraid of the Internal Revenue Service and wanted...