Spain sold four billion euros ($5.1 billion) of shorter-dated government bonds on Thursday, paying slightly more to borrow over three years than a month ago but drawing strong interest from investors.

Once upon a time, the foreign exchange (FX) markets enjoyed a clear framework for trading and were seen as a reflection of the health of global economies. But as central bank programs of quantitative easing have been introduced, currency market trades are not so clear cut, according to analysts at HSBC.

The European Union's banking watchdog will stick to a target for banks to raise more capital to help shield them from the euro zone debt crisis when it publishes a new report on Wednesday.

By 2100, some 10 million people will inhabit the earth, according to the United Nations.  When that happens will we encounter an “unprecedented planetary emergency” or can engineering, technology and the human spirit rise to the challenges posed by 10 billion people on earth?

As Portugal, Greece and Spain dominate the headlines with public protests, banking woes and bailouts, Ireland – one of the euro zone’s original crisis economies - is set to return to growth in 2013, according to Danske Research.

Car makers are hoping to battle a global downturn and Europe’s debt crisis with a series of new models and technologies at the Paris Motor Show this week, in the expectation that it will help boost flagging sales.

Stock markets across Europe returned to September’s rally on Thursday, despite well-publicized unrest on the streets of Greece and Spain.

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi has said he will do “whatever it takes” to defend the euro and Ben Bernanke’s Federal Reserve has gone to infinity and beyond in an attempt to revive the U.S. economy, but a growing number of market watchers are beginning to doubt unconventional monetary policy will actually work.

The fallout from the euro zone debt crisis will continue to hurt the region for the next decade, accountants Ernst & Young have warned.

Greece may be in flames, but its stock market is doing quite nicely. In fact, the gains so far this year have outpaced those in many financially stronger countries—especially China.

Spanish share prices tumbled nearly four percent on Wednesday, as investors worried whether the European Central Bank and its partners have sufficient resources to rescue the ailing Spanish economy.