There looks to be virtually no chance the MPC will move rates at the July meeting, according to an analysis by Citigroup analysts. But, the MPC will soon need to decide whether
World stocks dipped towards a 1-1/2 week low on Friday after the previous day's disappointing U.S. jobs report boosted expectations that the process of recovery in the world's biggest economy would be
Heavy job losses in the United States and Europe soured market sentiment, pointing to a long, slow recovery from the world's deepest recession in eight decades. Friday's euro zone service sector surveys
Asian stocks retreated on Friday and the dollar edged up after a disappointingly big drop in U.S. employment prompted investors to pull back from commodities, resource-linked shares and higher-yielding currencies. But the
Capital Intelligence, the international credit rating agency, has raised Lebanon’s long-term foreign and local currency ratings to ‘B’ from ‘B-’ (B minus). The outlook is stable. The long-term foreign currency ratings of
Moody's Investors Service has published an in-depth Banking System Outlook on Finland in which the rating agency reiterates that its fundamental credit outlook for the banking system is negative, having changed the
Moody's has restated that its view on the fundamental credit outlook for the Italian banking system remains negative, having been changed to negative from stable in May, reflecting the impact of the
European shares fell further in afternoon trade on Thursday after new data showed U.S. employers cut 467,000 jobs in June, far more than expected and increasing the U.S. unemployment rate to 9.5
Britain's top share index was down 0.7 percent at midday on Thursday, as equities fell broadly, led lower by energy and mining stocks which fell on retreating commodity prices ahead of key
Stock futures pointed to a lower open on Wall Street on Thursday, as investors braced for all-important monthly jobs data. At 4:39 a.m. EDT futures for the S&P 500, Dow Jones and
