It’s not the signal it used to be. When employers hire temporary staff after a recession, it’s long been seen as a sign they’ll soon hire permanent workers.

European stock markets won some respite Monday ahead of a meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Brussels, where the Greek debt crisis will inevitably top the agenda. Public holidays in Asia as well as the U.S. have kept volumes low.

DUBLIN—-Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Lobbyists, Governments and Public Trust, Volume 1: Increasing Transparency through Legislation” report to their offering.

British consumer price inflation is expected to have jumped to a 15-month high of 3.5 percent in January, but the news is unlikely to shift the Bank of England’s view that this is a transitory surge which will soon fade away.

WASHINGTON & NASHVILLE, Tenn.—-Individuals wanting to increase their personal well-being and enjoy the highest quality of life in America might want to consider relocating to Boulder, Colo. or the state of Hawaii.

The European Union has asked Greece to explain reports that it engaged in derivatives trades with U.S. investment banks that may have allowed it to mask the size of its debt and deficit from EU authorities.

Industrial output in Russia rose by 7.9 percent in January from a year ago as the country’s economy recovers from recession, the Federal Statistics Service said Monday.

DENVER—-Qwest Communications today announced the opening of its 17th data center nationwide and third center in the Washington, D.C., metro area, in response to continued customer demand for hosting and cloud-based infrastructure services.

Germany rejects the idea of setting up a special fund to bail out eurozone countries, like Greece, that run into fiscal trouble because budgetary problems must be solved at the root, the Finance Ministry said Monday.