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Using the example of Bitcoin, he told audiences digital currency meets all of his benchmarks.

The cost of childcare in the UK is among the highest in the world, and is driving many women to leave the workforce. Access to affordable childcare is a crucial element in addressing gender inequality. On International Women's Day, we also look at efforts to promote female entrepreneurs in the…

“We will do whatever is needed to return inflation to 2%,” ECB President Christine Lagarde told the Spanish newspaper El Correo in a Sunday interview, referencing the central bank’s inflation target.

In 2022, the annual inflation rate hit a record level (8.4%) since the Eurozone’s creation in 1999, mostly because of disruptions in the global supply chain and by the energy crisis provoked by the conflict in Ukraine.

The European Central Bank is set to go big again, with another half-point interest rate increase

Power brokers have wrapped up the World Economic Forum’s annual conclave in the Swiss town of Davos as worries about the war in Ukraine, a warming planet and a cooling global economy dominated discussions about the world’s ills

As the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum comes to a close, Anne McElvoy shares a behind-the-scenes look at the most in-demand party guests, and what everyone’s really talking about

Kristalina Georgieva hints growth forecast could be upgraded thanks to retreating inflation, but warns against overoptimism

One 74-year-old said: “I don’t dress my age and I never will.”

The European Central Bank could slow its record pace of interest rate increases

Establishing gender equality is one of the founding values of the European Union, yet women are still underrepresented in decision-making positions in Europe. According to the European Institute of Gender Equality (EIGE), women represent just 32.3% of presidents, board members and employee representatives, and 21.5% of CEOs, executives and non-executives…