Economy

By Sinead Cruise and Lawrence White LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s banks are accepting smaller profit margins and bigger risks on UK mortgage lending as stress in sterling money markets stretches…

By Gayatri Suroyo and Stefanno Sulaiman JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia’s central bank unexpectedly cut policy rates on Wednesday, resuming its monetary easing to prop up growth in Southeast Asia’s largest economy…

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany can only hope for a tangible economic recovery once there is clarity on the economic, financial and geopolitical outlook, the economy ministry said in its monthly…

By Lisa Baertlein and Ellen Zhang LOS ANGELES/BEIJING (Reuters) – U.S. imports from China finished the year strong after some companies stockpiled shipments of apparel, toys, furniture and electronics ahead…

Investing.com – US stock futures are steady ahead of the publication of a crucial US inflation report and the release of quarterly earnings from several banking giants. Economists predict that a…

LONDON (Reuters) -British inflation unexpectedly slowed to an annual rate of 2.5% in December from 2.6% in November and core measures of inflation watched closely by the Bank of England…

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato on Wednesday reiterated that the government would take appropriate action against excessive movement on the foreign exchange market, as the yen has seen…

By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) – There’s always the balance sheet. Battered bond markets are frantically repricing government borrowing costs to levels not seen for decades, raising fears that these…

A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Stella Qiu Bond investors may have drawn some comfort from the benign miss in U.S. producer price data…