From investment bankers to internet entrepreneurs, the FT's Moscow correspondents offer an insiders' guide to the country's movers and shakers.

The precious metal tumbled 8.8% to its lowest in almost three months.

Britain had a bad summit, but the euro zone had a worse one.

Israeli entrepreneur legally changes his name to that of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.

Moody's Investors Service downgraded Belgium two notches Friday, following a move earlier by Fitch Ratings to lower its outlook on France's triple-A rating.

The Bundesbank has quietly lent half a trillion euros to the European Central Bank. Could that determine the fate of the euro?

The ongoing eurozone debt crisis is the single greatest threat to Britain's current state of national security, claimed the UK's Chief of the Defence Staff General Sir David Richards on Wednesday.

It was billed as a summit to save the euro. It may be remembered as the day Europe lost patience with Britain, as most of the continent threw its lot in with EU founding members France and Germany and committed to binding their economies ever more tightly.

The moment, behind closed doors, that David Cameron lost his EU argument last night.

China's central bank plans to create a new vehicle to manage investment funds worth a total of $300 billion to improve returns on the world's largest stockpile of foreign exchange reserves, a source with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

OSLO (Reuters) - The soaring popularity of a fat-rich fad diet has depleted stocks of butter in Norway creating a looming Christmas culinary crisis.

Europe divided on Friday in a historic rift over building a closer fiscal union to preserve the euro, with a large majority of countries led by Germany and France agreeing to forge ahead with a separate treaty, leaving Britain isolated.

Ratings agency Moody's downgraded the debt of BNP Paribas (BNPP.PA), Societe Generale (SOGN.PA), and Credit Agricole (CAGR.PA) on Friday, citing deteriorating liquidity and funding conditions.

London, December 2, 2011-The Financial Times and IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, have launched the 2012 FT/IFC Sustainable Finance Awards, the world's leading awards for banks and other financial institutions that demonstrate leadership and innovation in integrating environmental, social and corporate governance considerations into their business.

Germany and five other triple A countries put on notice.