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As election looms, BoE set to sit tight on UK rateThe BoE was widely forecast to keep its cost of borrowing at 5.25 percent, a 16-year high, following a regular monetary policy meeting.
Europe’s €1trn debt ‘volcano’ likely to erupt and impact German economy, analyst warnsA leading analyst, Jeremy Batstone-Carr, a European strategist at Raymond James has warned that the EU is holding a giant loan ‘volcano’ th...
England goes into new lockdown as COVID-19 variant rampagesThe announcement came just hours after the government hailed Britain's success in becoming the first country to begin rolling out the vacci...
What Greece crisis means to the US economy?Some might argue turmoil in Greece could actually be a good thing for the US. Should things deteriorate across the eurozone, there may be m...
What Greece means to the United StatesGreece doesn't mean a lot to the US economy, but, the tiny country in the periphery of the eurozone has hijacked the headlines with its fin...
- Copper analysts join hedge funds in bets on price drop
Copper analysts are the most bearish in 12 weeks as the metal extends its worst start to a year in more than a decade on mounting concern t...
- Deadly Japan earthquake risks UK fiscal crisis: Study
Japan is burdened by the industrialised world's biggest debt, which runs close to 200 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP.
- G-20 faces urgent task of averting trade war
Leaders of the world's 20 biggest economies scrambled to reach a last-minute compromise on Friday to resolve a US-China currency dispute th...
- Asian currencies to gain from yuan revaluation, say analysts
Speculation of an imminent yuan revaluation has boosted other Asian currencies against the dollar recently, reflecting the region's world-l...
- With many eurozone countries struggling, ECB will move cautiously
The European Central Bank has already begun to undo exceptional measures taken amid the global financial crisis but will go more slowly tha...
- Japan inrecession after 7 yrs; IMF seeks $100 b to fight crisis
Japan became the latest major economy to fall into recession on Monday with France close behind, and the IMF said it needed at least $100 b...
- Global crisis shows teeth with mass Citigroup cuts
A brutal financial crisis showed its teeth as Citigroup announced a massive 50,000 job cuts and automakers begged governments to save them ...
- London investors seek stability after rollercoaster ride
Investors will be seeking stability on the London stock market in the coming days after one of the most volatile trading weeks in recent ti...
- Japan's growth slips to decade’s low in Sept
Japan’s broadest indicator of the outlook for the economy fell to the lowest level in a decade, signalling growth may stall.
- China lets yuan rise faster before Paulson meeting
China’s government increased the amount its currency can appreciate, raised interest rates and curbed bank loans to tame a runaway economy ...
- China hikes bank reserve ratio to halt loan rush
China ordered banks to set aside more money as reserves for the third time this year to curtail a credit-fuelled investment boom that may c...
- Big spending has to wait in Japan
The consumer spending spree that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and central banker Toshihiko Fukui are counting on to drive Japan’s economic gro...