October 24, 2014

Rapid UK economic growth slows slightly in third-quarter

(Reuters) - Britain's rapid economic recovery eased in the three months to September, as services output growth slowed and manufacturing expanded at the weakest pace in 18 months, official data showed on Friday.

October 23, 2014

EU's Juncker pledges investment plan for jobs

(Reuters) - The incoming head of the EU executive, Jean-Claude Juncker, told the European Parliament on Wednesday that he would present his 300-billion-euro plan for investment to bolster growth and jobs by the end of this year.

October 22, 2014

ECB can use new banking knowledge in rate setting: Constancio

(Reuters) - European Central Bank policymakers will be able to use the information they gain from their new banking supervisory powers in the traditional monetary policy side of their jobs, ECB Vice President Vitor Constancio said on Monday.

October 21, 2014

Eurozone crisis, five years on: no happy ending in sight for Greek odyssey

Greece loves its epic tales and the greatest of them is the story of Odysseus, the hero who took 10 years to find his way back to Ithaca at the end of the Trojan War.

October 20, 2014

Getting used to the 'new mediocre'

Until a dramatic selloff, exuberant markets had raced well ahead of the economies that underpin them, partly because the U.S. Federal Reserve and other central banks flooded the financial system with new money.