Topic: Elections

Shares in Spain's fourth-biggest lender Bankia SA were suspended on the Madrid stock exchange on Friday, ahead of an evening announcement when the bank is expected to ask the state for a rescue of more than 15 billion euros ($19 billion).

The Romney campaign is actively recruiting testimonials from workers who have had positive experiences with Bain Capital, the New York Times reports.

Egypt made history on Wednesday as it kicked off its first free presidential election and put its fragile democratic transition to the test. Just over 50 million eligible citizens are expected to cast their votes over the course of two days.

Strong demand for Germany’s two-year bonds, which offer nothing in return, shows that opening Pandora’s Box in Europe has sapped investor confidence, Jim O'Neill, chairman at Goldman Sachs Asset Management told CNBC’s “Worldwide Exchange.”

The tight battle between President Obama and Mitt Romney has barely budged despite all the major news developments of the past month, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll finds.

President Obama presses his attacks on Mitt Romney's background as a venture capitalist, arguing that profit-making alone is not a qualification for the White House.

However bad their prospects, many Greeks seem to think that since money to bail them out was found in the past, it will be found again.

Ron Paul won 12 of 13 delegates in Minnesota's state GOP convention. If Mitt Romney has the nomination all but tied up and Paul has effectively ended his campaign, why continue the fight?

Twenty-two states have joined Montana in fighting to prevent the  Supreme Court's Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate campaign spending.

Mitt Romney and his party raised a sizable $40 million last month, but many donors who backed his primary election challengers have not come to his aid.

Mitt Romney raised almost as much money as President Obama last month, taking in more than $40.1 million in fundraising efforts for his campaign and the Republican Party.

The billionaire said to be weighing a proposal to resurrect incendiary comments by President Obama's former pastor has shelved the idea after it was rejected by Mitt Romney.

Rep. Dave Camp steps up pressure to force action on a rewrite of the tax code, which both parties agree has become overly complicated and inefficient.

A growth compact to sit alongside the existing fiscal compact is a certainty for the euro zone as it battles the flames of discontent fanned by the harsh austerity measures implemented in struggling economies, one expert told CNBC Thursday.

A group of high-profile Republican strategists is working with a conservative billionaire on a proposal to mount one of the most provocative campaigns of the “super PAC” era and attack President Obama in ways that Republicans have so far shied away from, The New York Times reports.