Vienna- Some of Eastern Europe's hottest economies are cooling off, but the party doesn't seem to be over yet.

Berlin - A fragile calm appears to have descended on global financial markets after several waves of turmoil driven by fears that the US economic convulsions, triggered by the nation's mortgage ind

Washington - It was the dot-com bubble that sparked the last recession in the United States in 2001.

Despite moves to boost confidence in the world's volatile financial markets, the global economy has entered an uncertain period with the credit crunch and the US mortgage market crisis undercutting

Frankfurt - Proceedings began in a Frankfurt court Monday in which thou