Yuan weakness may add another wrinkle of concern over emerging market corporate balance sheets amid rising offshore debt. more...

U.S. politicians may have side-stepped a debt default on Wednesday, but currency analysts have told CNBC that the dollar's status as a reserve currency will suffer long-term. more...

The dollar fell on Monday while the yen rose on safe-haven demand. more...

The dollar treaded water in early Asian trading on Friday, holding just below two-week highs against major currencies . more...

CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera compares what happened to the stock markets after the last downgrade of U.S. debt and what happened to Italian stocks. more...

Gold inched higher on Tuesday. more...

CNBC's Sharon Epperson discusses the day's activity in the commodities markets and looks at where oil and precious metals are likely headed tomorrow. more...

Alexei Yakovitsky, global CEO of VTB Capital, says that growth in the short term might be slower in the US and euro zone and will impact the overall economy. more...

Tom Levinson, foreign exchange strategist at ING Commercial Banking, says that politics is back as a problem for foreign exchange markets. more...

Gold prices held steady on Tuesday, after Germany tempered hopes for a concrete solution to the euro zone's debt crisis at the European Union summit this weekend, dampening sentiment in equities and commodities. more...

The finance chiefs of the world's leading economies opened the door Saturday for the International Monetary Fund to play a bigger role in fighting the eurozone's escalating debt troubles. more...

There are all kinds of debt—as small as personal debt or as large as national debt. There's another type of debt as important as the rest—called Sovereign Debt. CNBC Explains. more...

Suffocating global debt problems and overreaching intervention programs will be good for the US dollar but bad for asset prices otherwise, investment guru Marc Faber said. more...

Japan wants the Group of 20 finance leaders to discuss what more the group can do to help stabilize Europe's debt crisis, Finance Minister Jun Azumi said on Tuesday, reiterating his call for further European efforts to restore market confidence. more...

Merkel and Sarkozy pledged to recapitalize the banks by early November. Insight into the current state of the euro debt crisis, with CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera. Also, Mujtaba Rahman, Eurasia Group Analyst weighs in. more...

Markets are moving on the announcement of a plan to nationalize part of troubled Franco-Belgian bank Dexia. CNBC's Ross Westgate shares the details from Brussels, Belgium. Also, CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera shares European Financial Stability Facility vote timeline. more...

US hedge funds and private equity firms that specialise in distressed situations are gearing up new or existing European offices in expectation of a surge in coming opportunities as the continent grapples with its sovereign debt crisis and sputtering growth, reported the FT. more...

"For a long time, it appeared the single currency system in Europe system worked," pointed out Alan Greenspan, former chairman at the Federal Reserve. more...

The insurer is happy with the exposure it has to indebted euro zone member states and is confident that European leaders will find solutions to the de debt crisis, Aviva CEO Andrew Moss told CNBC Friday. more...

The dollar is rising against the euro on concerns European leaders aren't doing enough to contain the debt crisis. So what's next for the euro? Insight with Camilla Sutton, chief currency strategest at Scotia Capital. more...