Brexit

Back in 2015, when Greeces debt crisis made it a possible contender for ejection from the eurozone, talk of a possible Grexit was rife. A year later, the day the UK voted in a referendum on EU membership, Quartz published a lighthearted post on the possible n…

Helicopter money may be coming, even if its not the best remedy. NEW YORK (Project Syndicate) A cloud of gloom hovered over the International Monetary Funds annual meeting this month. With the global economy experiencing a synchronized slowdown, any number o…

A pro-Brexit banner outside of Westminster in London. | Jack Taylor/Getty Images The terms you need to know to understand the EU-UK divorce. Brexit — a portmanteau for “British exit” — has generated a lot of very specific lingo. And those terms to describe an…

BRUSSELS, Belgium — The European Union on Monday agreed a three-month flexible delay to Britain's departure from the bloc as Prime Minister Boris Johnson pushes for an election after opponents forced him to request an extension he had vowed never to ask for. …

When does uncertainty become the worst condition of all? This fall, more than three years after Britain voted to leave the European Union, no one was sure what form Brexit would take, what kind of relationship we would have with our nearest neighbors, or whet…

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union governments may agree in principle on Friday to Britain’s request for an extension of the Brexit deadline, but keep the length of the delay open until next week, senior EU official said. The British parliament is set to v…

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday he wanted to call an early general election to resolve deadlock in parliament over Brexit. Johnson said he would ask parliament on Monday to approve a national election and wanted it t…

LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom will ultimately leave the European Union on the terms of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal even though parliament has complicated the timing of the divorce, a senior Downing Street source said. “This ends with …

European Union leaders may need to meet as soon as Friday if they cannot agree through contacts with chairman Donald Tusk on the terms of a potential Brexit extension, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on Wednesday. If there is consensus, we can do this…

Gold prices enjoyed a fillip from haven buying on Wednesday as a retreat in assets considered risky, amid political uncertainties like Brexit, underpinned gains in the yellow metal. The commodity is attempting to end a three-session stumble that had kept it p…