Italy's economy contracted by 0.1% in the second quarter from the previous three months due mainly to negative trade flows, national statistics bureau ISTAT said on Friday, confirming a previous ...

Over the past decade, Italy’s economic growth record has been abysmal. Since 2008, the country has managed to have a triple-dip economic recession and its economy is yet to regain its pre-2008 ...

Get ready for another European debt crisis this fall — but this time in Italy, a country with the world’s third-largest government-bond market and an economy some 10 times the size of that of ...

Once again, Italy and the E.U. are headed toward confrontation. They fought a protracted battle last year over the impact of Italy’s budget on its debt before arriving at a compromise in ...

Forget Lehman Brothers. Forget Greece. Italy, the world's eighth-largest economy, is teetering. Should it fall, the ensuing economic disaster will be unlike anything we've seen this decade.