France

08/22/2008  06:43 PM
The weakened US dollar has fallen out of favor with organized crime groups to pay for drug shipments or to settle scores, a Canadian government report said Friday.  (read more)
08/22/2008  04:53 AM
American sanctions on Iran's financial sector have not hampered business for Bank Mellat, one of Iran's major state-owned banks, its managing director said in an interview published Friday.  (read more)
08/19/2008  05:10 PM
Slovakia, which will adopt the euro currency from January next year, began producing its own euro coins on Tuesday, said the country's Mint at Kremnica.  (read more)
08/19/2008  05:07 PM
German investor confidence improved slightly in August, a key economic indicator suggested on Tuesday, thanks to the recent fall in the price of oil and a weakening of the euro.  (read more)
08/10/2008  07:57 AM
Shouldering the heaviest inflation burden in the EU, consumers in the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia draw little comfort from official data showing price rises are slowing.  (read more)