France's growing budget deficit is set to exceed the European Unions limit for the dozen countries using the euro, the French government said. An economic slowdown and tax cuts are behind Europe's...
Europe's service industry, which accounts for more than half the region's $8 trillion economy, grew in August at the fastest pace in more than a year, the latest sign a recovery may be taking hold...
Britain's bedraggled manufacturing sector faces its best prospects for growth in four years, the Engineering Employers' Federation said yesterday in an unusually upbeat forecast. The EEF, normally...
With the big countries Germany and France about to break the euro zone stability pact this year, the euro zone economy as a whole is at risk of breaking the rules. Such fears were voiced on Tuesday...
European stocks opened higher on Wednesday after strong overnight gains on Wall Street. Firm manufacturing data combined with improving sentiment sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average 1.1 per cent...
Hotels to betting groupHilton is to issue £300m worth convertible bonds, the latest in a stream of convertible issues by blue-chip UK companies. Hilton said the final size of the transaction, to be...
”The rapid increase in house prices in regions outside of southern England over the past year has made it increasingly difficult for first-time buyers" Bucking expectations of a slowdown, the...
Germany, France and Italy created the current economic weakness in the eurozone by failing to prepare properly for their euro entry during the 1990s, Swedish Prime Minister Goeran Persson claimed in...
European bourses gave up some of their early gains but remained positive as optimism about the outlook for company profits improves and investors return to their desks from the summer break. The...
France notified the European Commission on Monday (1 September) that it estimates a public deficit this year reaching over 4% of gross domestic product (GDP), which is above the 3% threshold set by...