JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s biggest food producer Tiger Brands said on Tuesday its four-month revenue to end January rose…
Euro zone business growth at 9-month high as services supports -flash PMI
By Jonathan Cable LONDON (Reuters) -Surprisingly strong services growth meant the recovery in euro zone business activity gathered steam this…
HSBC signals rate rise profit windfall has peaked even as payouts rise
By Anshuman Daga and Lawrence White SINGAPORE/LONDON (Reuters) -HSBC dampened investors’ expectations of a sustained income bonanza from rising global…
Explainer-Why Germany doesn’t like the EU’s debt reform proposals
BERLIN (Reuters) – EU finance ministers started talks last week on adjusting the bloc’s fiscal rules to the post-pandemic realities…
UK’s Hunt gets a pre-budget boost with surprise January surplus
By Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s government ran an unexpected budget surplus in January thanks to strong income tax receipts,…
Goldman Sachs expects ECB to raise rates thrice this year
(Reuters) – Goldman Sachs said it was expecting the European Central Bank to raise interest rates thrice this year, taking…
German investor morale recovers more than expected – ZEW
By Maria Martinez BERLIN (Reuters) – German investor sentiment continued on its recovery path in February, the ZEW economic research…
France’s Capgemini eases hiring due to tech sector slowdown
By Lina Golovnya (Reuters) – French IT consulting group Capgemini on Tuesday forecast weaker revenue growth and said it would…
UK factories report falling output and orders in February: CBI
LONDON (Reuters) – British manufacturing output and orders sagged in February and price pressures cooled again, an industry survey showed…
Analysis-Fed’s quandary: Can the economy keep motoring and inflation fall?
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A year into the U.S. Federal Reserve’s most aggressive monetary crackdown since the 1980s…