Economic Indicators News

HONG KONG/LONDON (Reuters) - HSBC Holdings Plc (LON:HSBA) posted on Tuesday a 15.9 percent rise in 2018 profit, supported by business growth in its core markets of Asia and...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Greece is at risk of not getting some 750 million euros next month that it won under a debt relief deal with the euro zone last year because it has not...

By James Mackenzie ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The lavish welcome for visiting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Islamabad this weekend could hardly have made more clear...

By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - British households grew more downbeat about their finances this month as job worries rose to the highest in over a year, reflecting a slowing...

BERLIN (Reuters) - German engineering exports to Britain rose by 5.1 percent year-on-year in 2018, industry association VDMA said on Monday, adding that British companies stocked...

LONDON (Reuters) - Asking prices for British homes rose by the least in a decade over the past year, property website Rightmove said on Monday, adding to signs of a slowing...

LONDON (Reuters) - British businesses plan to raise basic wages by the most in at least seven years, due to recruitment difficulties and a need to keep pay in line with...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - The value of Irish goods exports rose by 15 percent to a record 140 billion euros (£123 billion) last year as a fall in the goods sold into Britain was...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The euro zone's trade surplus in goods with the rest of the world shrank last year because of higher imports, data from the European Union's...

LONDON (Reuters) - A key gauge of the market's long-term expectations for inflation in the euro zone fell on Friday to its lowest level in more than two years, extending its...

By Andy Bruce and David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - British retail sales rebounded strongly in January as steep clothing discounts attracted wary shoppers, bucking a slowdown in...

Investing.com - U.K. retail sales rose by 1% in January, as consumers shrugged off uncertainty over the country’s plan to leave the European Union at the end of March and...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - FCA Group, Ford and Volkswagen (DE:VOWG_p) led a 4.6 percent decline in European car registrations in January, industry data showed, dampened by an economic...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's exports in January are forecast to have fallen at the fastest pace in more than two years as the U.S.-Sino trade war put the brakes on demand for...

(Bloomberg) -- China’s factory inflation decelerated for a seventh month, adding to concerns about the return of deflation and the impact that will have on already weak...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's factory-gate inflation slowed for a seventh straight month in January to its weakest pace since September 2016, raising concerns the world's...

(Bloomberg) -- So much for a merry Christmas. Even though investors entered the holidays expecting a surge of spending, figures released Thursday by the Commerce Department show...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The euro zone economy slowed as expected year-on-year in the last three months of 2018 as growth in Germany came to a halt and Italy slipped into recession,...

By Paul Carrel BERLIN (Reuters) - The German economy stalled in the final quarter of last year, narrowly escaping recession, as the fallout from global trade disputes and Brexit...

PARIS (Reuters) - France's unemployment rate fell unexpectedly at the end of last year to its lowest level since the start of 2009, data published by the INSEE national...

(Bloomberg) -- Japan’s economy rebounded modestly in the final three months of 2018, as domestic demand drove growth while weakness in exports fueled concerns about a...

By Stanley White TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's economy bounced back in the fourth quarter as business and consumer spending recovered from the impact of natural disasters but...

LONDON (Reuters) - British property surveyors are the most downbeat about the short-term outlook for house prices in nearly eight years, and sellers are shying away from putting...

By Andy Bruce and William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) - British inflation fell to a two-year low in January, dipping below the Bank of England's target and offering some...

(Bloomberg) -- A key measure of U.S. inflation was little changed in January while the broader gauge slowed on lower energy costs, underscoring the Federal Reserve's recent...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone industrial production fell more than expected in December, official estimates showed on Wednesday, pulled down by a drop in the output of capital...

Investing.com - The annual rate of inflation in the U.K. dropped to 1.8% in January according to data released on Wednesday, its lowest level since Dec. 2016 and below the Bank of...

(Bloomberg) -- South Korea’s jobless rate hit the highest level in nine years, adding to evidence that President Moon Jae-in’s minimum wage hikes are doing more to harm...

(Bloomberg) -- While American politicians on both sides of the aisle have been mostly silent as the U.S. deficit swells toward $1 trillion and beyond, former Federal Reserve...

By Iain Withers and Sinead Cruise LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's banks say they are getting no guidance from government on how to deal with a predicted surge in business...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Interior Minister Horst Seehofer wants to change Germany's telecommunications law so that stricter conditions apply to all foreign vendors, the RND group...

(Bloomberg) -- Sentiment among U.S. small businesses slumped in January to the lowest level since Donald Trump became president, as the economic outlook weakened amid the...

By David Milliken and Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's economy slowed sharply in late 2018, pushing annual growth to a six-year low as worries about Brexit hammered...

By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Two major international development banks, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Finance Corporation, have...

Investing.com - The British economy slowed by more than expected in the fourth quarter, with the annualized reading dropping to its weakest level in six years, amid uncertainty...