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Leaders plan to change E.U. treaties to help solve crisis
Stephen Beard Nov 24, 2011
Leaders of France, Italy and Germany are meeting in Strasbourg, and here's the headline: They want to change E.U. treaties so they can better deal with the debt crisis.
Angela Merkel: European Central Bank won't change
Stephen Beard Nov 24, 2011
European leaders met in France today to try to make headway on the ongoing debt crisis there. German Chancellor Angela Merkel emerged from those meetings unmoved.
Financial markets unimpressed by EU treaties plan
Stephen Beard Nov 24, 2011
Critics say a plan proposed by leaders of Germany, France and Italy to modify European Union treaties won't help with the immediate crisis.
College graduates in China, like the U.S., face high unemployment
Rob Schmitz Nov 24, 2011
In China, the government is considering phasing out college majors that don't allow students to find work after graduation.
Has the debt crisis spread to Germany?
Josh Brown Nov 23, 2011
A disastrous bond sale creates fears of European contagion spreading to Germany today.
China surpasses U.S. to become biggest smartphone market
Rob Schmitz Nov 23, 2011
China is now the world's largest smartphone market -- but smartphones there aren't quite the same as the ones Americans are used to.
What Europe thinks of the super committee's inaction
Stephen Beard Nov 21, 2011
It was just last week that President Obama criticized the Europeans for not solving their debt issues. But it looks like we aren't faring much better here in the U.S.
Julia Coronado: We don't know how long we can go without debt solution
Jeremy Hobson Nov 21, 2011
As of now, the markets are still going on despite the likely lack of a deal in the super committee this week. But much of that depends on the situation in Europe, which could turn around.
PODCAST: Super committee nears the end
Mary Dooe Nov 29, 2011
Talks are winding down at the Congressional super committee, and so far, no deal has been made. Spain has a new government after elections were held over the weekend. Hewlett-Packard reports earnings today, the first time since Meg Whitman took the reins. And Tyson foods, the big meat producer, reported even bigger quarterly losses.
Results of Spanish election could help country's economic state
Sarah Rainsford Nov 21, 2011
A new party will now take power in Spain, and citizens of that country hope this will solve their economic problems.
