Economy of the United States

Serbia's Prime Minister and the Serbian Fiscal Council expressed concern after the US Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter of a point for the first time in almost a decade. Around 30 per cent of Serbian public debt is in dollars.

The Light Helicopter Turbine Engine Company (LHTEC), a 50-50 partnership between U.K.-based Rolls-Royce and U.S.-based Honeywell, has signed an agreement with Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) to provide military and civilian helicopter engines.

Avis car rental company has intensified its presence in Northern Greece with a new station at Alexandroupolis. The new plant is part of the company’s strategic expansion program. Through its creation, Avis is seeking to strengthen existing networks that include 78 rental stations and support customers in all their movements in northern Greece.

Activity in China's vast manufacturing sector shrank in October for the third straight month, officials said on Nov. 1, fuelling fears that growth in the world's second largest economy is slowing faster than policymakers admit.

The US Senate passed a bipartisan, two-year budget deal early on Oct. 30 that boosts federal spending by $80 billion, reduces a government shutdown threat and raises the debt ceiling through the end of Barack Obama's presidency.

Bulgaria's gross foreign debt totalled EUR 35.4 B at the end of August, equivalent to 82.2% of the estimated 2015 GDP, the central bank said on Monday.

The external debt figure was 8.2% lower than in August 2014 and 10.1% lower compared with the end of last year, the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) said in a monthly debt report.

US electric carmaker Tesla Motors sold more than 3,000 cars in China, the world's biggest auto market, in the first nine months of this year, it said Oct. 23.

A voodoo fortune teller from Gambia has caused a storm in the Greek showbiz world. Artists and businessmen would visit him on his 1st floor flat at 160 Agiou Meletiou street in the Athens center to consult with him.

Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has voiced his hope that US-based Westinghouse will return to Bulgaria and build Unit 7 of the Kozloduy nuclear power plant, but under new conditions.

Westinghouse Electric Company was to build Unit 7 under an agreement with the previous elected government.

Air France managers fled a meeting on Monday about huge job cuts after angry staff waving banners and flags stormed the room, according to Telegraph.

Airline human resources and labor relations chief Xavier Broseta was captured with his shirt ripped off, his tie hanging from his neck, while battling his way through crowds of workers as he sought to escape.