PARIS - European leaders gather for an informal dinner summit in Brussels Wednesday, dominated by increasing calls for growth measures and gloomy news about the state of the eurozone economy. France's new president Francois Hollande is expected to champion a particularly controversial measure - eurobonds. This latest meeting of European Union leaders takes place amid a changed political and economic landscape. To be sure, the main problem facing the 27 European leaders remains the ...

Days after social media giant Facebook started publicly selling its stock, financial regulators in the U.S. are taking a closer look at whether key information about the company's financial prospects was provided to large investors in advance of the sale, but withheld from others. In the days leading up to the start of trading in the stock last Friday, investigators say that an analyst at Facebook's leading financial supporter, the Morgan Stanley investment banking firm, may have ...