Wolfgang Schaeuble

Brent Crude Oil traded at 112.15 on Tuesday morning, a steady increase from last week's volatile price swings. Supply interruption fears and a global economic slowdown has kept the commodity from swinging high or low so far this week. Fears about China's most recent economic data have put downward...

The euro traded at 1.2964 Tuesday morning and showed little change from Monday's prices. Investor confidence in the region's currency remained hopeful but cautious as Europe's finance ministers met in Luxembourg on Monday to discuss steps to take in curbing the financial crisis. The meeting...

According to Bloomberg, European governments are aiming to hand over as much as $123 billion in emergency loans in order to stabilize Spanish banks. In addition, the costs may be moved from the Spanish government's balance sheet in order to shield the country from the debt crisis. Spain's...

The government of German Chancellor Angela Merkel was delivered a blow on Friday when the President of Germany resigned over allegations of corruption. Former German President Christian Wulff's role was largely a ceremonial one but he was expected to act as the moral leader of the German government...

Whenever Greece takes a step forward in addressing its financial crisis, the country then seems to take two steps back. Greece's chances of avoiding a painful default seem to have taken yet another step back, as Eurozone finance ministers have questioned the country's willingness to commit to...

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said the European Union needs to quickly enact treaty changes in order to better deal with the eurozone financial crisis. The German Finance Minister said that a treaty change was needed so that the European Union could have veto power over the budgets of...

Eurozone optimists were dealt another blow when Moody's Investors Service downgraded Spain's credit rating two notches. Moody's lowered Spain's debt rating to A1, down from the previous rating of Aa2. The Spanish downgrade will hurt Spain's ability to raise funds because the lower credit rating...

Moody's Investors Service dropped a bombshell on the markets late on Monday when the credit rating agency said that it will "monitor and assess” France's Aaa credit rating. The markets have reacted negatively to much of the recent news out of Europe. The possibility of a downgrade to France's...

The euro dropped to an 8-month low against the American dollar, as concerns over Greece's ability to pay its debts continued to put pressure on the eurozone currency. European stock markets were also down during Monday trading as investors worried about the effect that a Greek default would have on...

Yesterday on CNBC, Steve Liesman reported that there are plans being discussed high up in the Eurozone about potentially leveraging the existing funds (some €440 billion) to shore up bank capital, in a plan very similar to the TARP program that was enacted in the United States back in 2008....

Moody's Investors Service downgraded 8 Greek banks on Friday, citing the banks' exposure to Greek government bonds and a worsening Greek economy. Earlier this year, all of Greece's major banks agreed to a government bond swap that resulted in them reporting billions of euros in losses, which hurt...

The Capitol of Greece was brought to a standstill on Thursday as thousands of public transport workers went on strike in protest of the latest round of austerity measures that are aimed at convincing Greece's international creditors that the country is serious about reducing its fiscal deficits....

It was reported on Tuesday morning that the state-run Bank of China has halted FOREX swaps with several top European banks. The banks included Societe Generale and Credit Agricole, which were downgraded by Moody's Investors Service last week, and BNP Paribas, which Moody's said it will need more...

During a speech made before Germany's Parliament, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned that Greece must meet all the conditions that it previously agreed to in order to receive the next round of funds from its rescue package. Greece is having problems sticking to the austerity...