ECONOMY

Many women find the idea of quotas distasteful but Unilever executive Tracey Rogers is not convinced that gender balance in the boardroom is happening fast enough.

Greece's biggest general strike today has seen thousands of people take to the streets in Athens and stand alongside the two main trade unions, protesting against more planned spending cuts.

Procedural mistakes are costing Barclays dearly, because not only did they have to cough up £290m in fines for their part in rigging the interbank lending rate.

The hedge fund firm shares fall sharply, after clients withdraw billions of dollars from it for the fifth consecutive quarter.

July to September retail sales post best run in more than two years as Olympics and back-to-school boost lift High Street

With national elections just months away, Noda is keen on pulling economy out of sluggish growth.

Although the GDP has dipped, China's economy shows signs of stabilising.

The fourth EU Summit this year gets underway for two days later on this afternoon and the idea proposed back in June - of creating a single banking supervisor under the European Central Bank by the end of the year - will be top of the agenda.

Banking union wants single supervisor under ECB but Germany prefers political union to tackle the region’s crisis.

Citigroup's Steve Englander argues Greece leaving the Euro is not an option and the cost of a break up would be "tremendous"

Record high employment figures mask a recession stuck economy. But economists remain puzzled as to why we're working longer but failing to growth

UK financial services minister Greg Clark confirms that Britain will change the law to reform the Libor

The UK jobless figures are down. According to Office of National Statistics, there were 50,000 fewer people looking for a job in the three months to August, meaning a total of 2.53 million people are out of work.

FX specialists debate on whether the US Federal Reserve is intentionally weakening the dollar, resulting in a ‘currency war’.

Number of Britons in work rose to record 29.59 million in the three months ending August and headline unemployment fell to 7.9 percent.

Moody's affirms the investment grade rating of Spain at Baa3, one notch above junk status.

Legendary chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management says a union of several emerging markets are looking to set up a development bank

Citigroup chief executive Vikram Pandit has surprised Wall Street by resigning with immediate effect.

The American people have been reacting to last night's second live televised debate between President Barack Obama and the man who wants to take over in the hot seat, Republican nominee, Mitt Romney.

Britain has clawed back less than a third of value lost during global economic crisis thanks to faster inflation, weak exports and government spending cuts.

First Minister Alex Salmond's drive for Scottish independence has uncanny echoes to a failed attempt by Quebec's Separatists nearly seventeen years ago.

Vikram Pandit steps down after five years at the head of Citigroup after third-biggest US bank posts solid earnings

House of Lords to Question Barclays, RBS and Lloyds on EU banking reform and the impact it will have on the UK

Future Financial Conduct Authority chiefs talks in detail about changes being made to improving the UK's financial services industry for consumers

Britain's consumer price index eases to 2.2 percent in September, slowest since 2009, but gas and electricity prices look set to reverse the trend

Canada cleanest place in the world to do business, says fraud survey.

Opposition describes measures as 'fiscal time bomb', while country's largest trade union planning general strike.

Three-year probe into collapse of Icelandic bank Kaupthing abandoned because of lack of evidence.

The EU approved a second round of tough trading sanctions on Iran as crude exports, currency continue to tumble.