This week's G20 summit in the US will call for major reforms to promote a more balanced global economy, according to a document seen by the BBC.... [full story]

The recovering housing market may be heading for a relapse as President Barack Obama and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke consider ending support for the source of the global financial crisis... [full story]

A year after Lehman Brothers collapsed, a think tank has warned the lessons of the crisis have not been learned. The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) says the rapid return to the City's bonus culture shows that... [full story]

Are there any mirrors in the headquarters of the Federal Reserve? If so, I think it's time for Ben Bernanke and his colleagues to look into one. The Fed, according to a Wall Street Journal report Friday, is said to be considering... [full story]

Wall Street stretched to new one-year highs Friday afternoon as investors weighed economic optimism with jitters about the pace of the rally amid the "quadruple witching," a big quarterly options expiration.... [full story]

The Canadian dollar could rally further as fears about Bank of Canada intervention ease, RBC Dominion Securities said in a research note Friday. Senior currency strategist Matthew Strauss said the central bank has toned... [full story]

The stock market has mounted an historic rally since it hit a low in March. The S&P 500 is up 55%, as U.S. job losses have slowed and credit markets have stabilized. But against that improving backdrop, one indicator... [full story]

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the government is moving to withdraw some of its support for financial markets and cautioned that the recovery will have “more than the usual ups and downs.”... [full story]

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says Ottawa's string of deficits will drag on at least two years longer than expected and isn't offering any guarantees as to when the federal government's books will be back in the black. But... [full story]

The prime minister of France, the country perhaps most associated with the cherished "European model" of job security and social safety nets, warned Saturday that it may prove unsustainable because the region's economies are too stagnant.... [full story]