Asian shares rose on Friday while the yen was aiming for its best week in four months as strong inflation data from Tokyo had ...

France's borrowing costs have effectively matched those of Greece for the first time, highlighting growing concerns over ...

The struggle against Macron cannot be left to parliamentary maneuvers by the neo-fascist Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, whose ...

Marine Le Pen’s budget brinkmanship is a manageable risk. Longer-term institutional and political crisis is not.

The Government plans to borrow between €6bn and €10bn next year despite an expected budget surplus again in 2025 and a huge cash pile heading out of this year. The National Treasury Management Agency ...

In early October, a budget for 2025 was put forward that aimed to bring under control France's growing deficit, through a ...

The yen rallied Friday after forecast-busting inflation data out of Tokyo boosted talk of another Japanese interest rate cut ...

Investors in French bonds have bigger worries, given doubts about the current government's prospects for survival. Although ...

The French government is prepared to “make concessions” to get its budget though parliament and avoid a market “storm”, the ...

Borrowing costs for France have hit a 12-year high relative to Germany, and were more than those of Greece for the first time ...

French Prime Minister Michel Barnier has retracted plans to increase electricity taxes following threats from the far-right ...