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Venezuela announced on Friday the "temporary" takeover of two plants belonging to U.S. cleaning products maker Clorox Co which has left the country because of difficult economic conditions.

Scotland's rejection of independence and a lack of any fireworks at a Fed meeting last week have calmed investors enough to shift the focus back to what some call the "Great Stagnation", and how to avoid it.

JBS SA, the world's largest meatpacker, has put off a plan to raise 4 billion reais ($1.7 billion) from the initial public offering of its pork, poultry and food-processing operations in Brazil, two sources with direct knowledge of the decision said.

Russia risks slipping into recession because the government is not investing enough in the economy to weather Western sanctions, former finance minister Alexei Kudrin said on Tuesday, criticizing the strategy so far.

Standing with bags of groceries outside discount store Lidl in Thetford, eastern England, Jodie McGloughlin explains simply why she turned her back on Britain's biggest retailer - its high prices.

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras announced cuts on Saturday to unpopular taxes introduced at the height of Greece's debt crisis, in a bid to show that over four years of austerity are finally nearing an end.

Reuters columnist Allison Schrager said one of the reasons why the US Federal Reserve did not manage the recession as well as it should is the nation's aging population.

Greek Prime Minister announced on Saturday that the country would return to growth next year as its would exit recession.

Greece's economic growth rates continues to slow down despite bailouts.

For the first time since 2011, the Spanish unemployment rate fell.

The 17 nations in Euro zone suffered from recession. Unemployment was high but inflation rate remains up.

Ireland's economy is still in recession as the end of bailout approaches.

Bankia's bad history now a thing of the past.

Banks are now cleaning the vestiges of the 2008 market crash by dumping CDS instruments.