By Sabine Siebold and Lesley Wroughton TORONTO (Reuters) - Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations will discuss how to maintain pressure on Russia...
By Helen Reid LONDON (Reuters) - Weaker sterling helped Britain's FTSE 100 (FTSE) outperform European markets on Friday, while consumer giant Reckitt Benckiser tumbled...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone consumer confidence unexpectedly rose in April, according to figures released by the European Commission on Friday. The European Commission said a...
BERLIN (Reuters) - Some 82 percent of U.S. companies operating in Germany expect revenues to increase this year, a survey showed on Friday, despite a brewing trade conflict over...
By David Milliken and Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) - British shoppers stayed home in March as they felt the chill from the 'Beast from the East', leading to the...
Investing.com - UK retail sales slumped in March, raising concerns about the strength of the British economy. Retail sales fell 1.2% in March the Office for National Statistics...
(Bloomberg) -- Australian employment rose less than forecast in March and the previous month’s gain was revised to a decline, suggesting the central bank will keep interest rates...
By Andy Bruce and Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) - British inflation unexpectedly cooled to a one-year low in March, calling into question whether the Bank of England will raise...
By Michael Nienaber and Francesco Canepa BERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German unions have reached an inflation-busting pay hike deal for more than 2 million public sector workers...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Inflation in the 19 countries sharing the euro currency rose in March by less than previously estimated, European statistics office Eurostat said on Wednesday,...
Investing.com - The annual rate of change in Britain's consumer price index fell to 2.5% last month, the Office for National Statistics said on Wednesday. This was compared to...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's better-than-expected economic expansion in the first quarter was backed by a pickup in construction and industry, while a slowdown in the services...
(Bloomberg) -- Japan’s trade balance remained in surplus in March, but the increase in exports was less than expected, with sales to the U.S. and EU nearly flat. Key...
(Bloomberg) -- China’s home prices rose at the fastest pace in three months in March, fueled by gains in smaller cities, even as the government maintained a two-year campaign...
By Stanley White TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's exports rose less than expected in March due to a strong yen, raising some concern about the outlook for shipments on top of anxiety...
(Reuters) - British businesses' marketing budgets rose at the slowest pace since the start of 2016 in the first quarter as challenging market conditions continued to put...
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday that rising U.S.-China trade restrictions threaten to damage a steady global growth...
By David Milliken and William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) - British workers' pay is still rising by less than inflation despite the lowest unemployment rate since 1975,...
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland raised its gross domestic product (GDP) forecasts for the next four years on Tuesday, predicting growth of 5.6 percent this year and 4 percent next,...
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's lacklustre rate of productivity growth should get a boost from record-high employment levels, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond told...
BERLIN (Reuters) - German investor morale plunged to its lowest level in more than five years in April as economic data weakened and uncertainty linked to rising trade tensions...
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan will likely maintain its view inflation will reach its 2 percent target next fiscal year and project it will stay near that...
By Igor Ilic ZAGREB (Reuters) - Adopting the euro would offer "numerous and lasting" benefits for Croatia's economy, central bank governor Boris Vujcic told...
By Rene Wagner BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's leading economic institutes have raised their growth forecast for Europe's largest economy to 2.2 percent this year from a previous...
Investing.com - The number of people in employment in the UK rose 55,000 in the three months to March, in line with expectations. The claimant count, which measures the change in...
By Elias Glenn BEIJING (Reuters) - China's economy grew at a slightly faster-than-expected pace of 6.8 percent in the first quarter, buoyed by strong consumer demand, healthy...
(Bloomberg) -- China’s economic expansion held up amid robust consumer spending, underpinning global growth and giving authorities more room to purge excessive...
(Bloomberg) -- China’s economic expansion held up amid robust consumer spending, underpinning global growth and giving authorities more room to purge excessive borrowing,...
By Elias Glenn BEIJING (Reuters) - Despite a more upbeat view of the first quarter, economists still expect China's economic growth to slow to 6.5 percent this year, with a...
Investing.com - First-quarter earnings season kicks into high gear on Monday, as Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX), Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) and Charles Schwab (NYSE:SCHW) report results....
BERLIN (Reuters) - German companies are struggling to find skilled workers to increase production and the shortage of manpower is costing the economy up to 0.9 percentage points of...
By Elias Glenn BEIJING (Reuters) - China likely carried most of its strong economic momentum from last year into the first quarter of 2018, with government crackdowns on financial...
(Reuters) - The cost of a comprehensive motor insurance policy fell 7 percent in Britain in the first quarter, the largest quarterly reduction in premiums seen in four years, a...
By William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) - British consumers cut their spending by the most in more than five years in early 2018 as heavy snowfalls combined with an ongoing squeeze...
ROME (Reuters) - The Bank of Italy said on Friday economic growth and industrial output probably slowed during the first three months of the year compared with the end of 2017....
