UK consumer prices rose 1.9 percent from a year earlier, down from 2.4 percent in June, the Office for National Statistics said with the rate going well below the Bank of England’s 2 percent target for the first time since March 2006 last month, weakening the case for another interest-rate increase. The pound fell below

Real GDP growth in Cyprus slowed to 3.6% year on year in the second quarter of 2007, from 4.0% in the first, according to the “flash” estimate produced by the Statistical Service Cystat on August 14. A flash estimate is based on early results and does not provide a full breakdown of the national accounts.

Trust, the manufacturer of affordable computer peripheral devices and the sponsor of the Dutch Spyker F1 team, has introduced the exclusive Spyker F1 laser mouse MI-7750R (www.trust.com/15376). With this mouse, Trust introduces an exclusive mouse of a high technical quality. This mouse, which exhibits the power and dynamics of both Formula 1 and the Trust

Minister of Finance Michalis Sarris has said the Euro Observatories in Cyprus have an important role to play in the effort to consolidate trust between consumers and businessmen. Sarris, who was visiting the Euro Observatory in the coastal town of Larnaca, said the message from the various Euro Observatories in Cyprus is that “we are

The tax-induced boom in motor vehicle registrations continues, with registrations up 33.3% year on year to 5,985 units in July, of which 4,408 were passenger cars. For the period January-July, total registrations rose by 33.1% to 40,285. In this period the number of saloon car registrations rose by 35.9% to 31,976; the number of light

Cystat starts reporting in euros   In the first six months of 2007 the merchandise trade deficit in Cyprus widened to CYP 1,383,713,000 (EUR 2,364,214,000), or CYP 1.4, according to preliminary estimates for the month of June, compared with CYP 1,270,370 (EUR 2,170,556,000) in the same period of 2006. In June alone, total imports/ arrivals

DatingDirect.com, the UK‘s largest dating service and Sky.com have announced a new partnership and launched Sky Dating. The agreement is the first major  partnership announcement following the acquisition of DatingDirect.com in January by Europe‘s largest dating service, meetic. Sky.com users can now click through to a co-branded DatingDirect.com homepage where they will have access to

Trapeze Networks, the award-winning global provider of Smart Mobile wireless solutions, has announced that it has recently launched the second phase of its Smart Mobile technology, a new generation of high-performance software and hardware solutions capable of supporting the largest-scale enterprise wireless LAN deployments and mission-critical applications. With the innovative products, Trapeze is poised to