Eurozone banks unable to get funding from the markets.

Thomson Reuters Corp Chief Executive Tom Glocer is stepping down at the end of the year following a slump in the share price in recent months.

Kazakhstan on Thursday launched the first metro system built in Central Asia since the collapse of the Soviet Union, a $1.1 billion project in its earthquake-prone commercial capital Almaty.

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Around the globe, more than 220,000 financial service positions are slated to disappear this year.

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South Korean President Lee Myung-bak will be donning thermal underwear over the winter period, in an attempt to persuade his citizens to make some sacrifices in order to conserve electricity amid surging power demands in the country.

In 2011, Kazakhstan's oil exports ran at 1.74 million barrels per day.

Following a criteria revision, credit ratings firm Standard and Poor's has upgraded the ratings of several Chinese banks while a few top U.S. banks were downgraded.

International companies are preparing contingency plans for a possible break-up of the eurozone, according to interviews with dozens of multinational executives.

Sberbank, Russia's largest bank, signed a $3 billion deal with Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) to finance projects and organise debt issuance for the Kazakh state railway firm, the companies said on Wednesday.

Kazakhstan's sovereign wealth fund is preparing to inject more capital into BTA as part of a business plan that could involve the country's third-largest lender buying back its bonds next year, sources close to the matter said.

China's central bank cut reserve requirements for commercial lenders on Wednesday for the first time in three years, a policy shift to ease credit strains and shore up an economy running at its weakest pace since 2009.

The world's major central banks acted jointly on Wednesday to provide cheaper dollar liquidity to starved European banks facing a credit crunch as the euro zone's sovereign debt crisis threatened to bring financial disaster.

Offering next year could raise $10 billion, valuing company at $100 billion.