global financial crisis

Globally, registrations of new businesses increased between 2000 and 2007, but the trend reversed at the onset of the global financial crisis, resulting in a decrease in new business startups as financial markets plunged and credit markets froze....

With the global financial crisis in full bloom, charities were already bracing for a difficult year in 2009, but those affected by the Madoff scandal have been especially hard hit....

Although meeting organizers said they expected less money to be pledged this year as a result of the global financial crisis, commitments made exceeded the total dollar value of commitments made at the 2008 meeting by $1.4 billion....

The global financial crisis took a heavy toll on the world's wealthiest individuals last year, with the number of millionaires falling by a record amount, according to a report released Thursday.

The European single currency is 10 years old today. It's in pretty good shape, in spite of the global financial crisis.

There are now more euros in circulation than U.S. dollars. But its beginnings were far from auspicious. Stephen Beard reports.

The yen has long been the source of low-interest capital for big borrowers from around the world. Then the global financial crisis hit.

Senior Business Correspondent Bob Moon explains what happened next.

Finance ministers from the world's largest industrialized nations are in Washington looking for a way to coordinate a multi-national response to the global financial crisis.

John Dimsdale reports.