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The Bank of England is widely expected to inject more money into the struggling economy this year, and the announcement of the increase of asset purchase programme may be made >>

The number of Americans who lost their jobs dropped unexpectedly during the last week, supporting the argument for the Federal Reserve to remove its ultra accommodative monetary policy stance earlier >>

The number of people holding down jobs in the Eurozone fell to its lowest point in nearly seven years in the final three months of 2012, according to the European >>

Slovakia's consumer prices slowed down for the fourth time in a row and the core inflation rate eased to 2.5% in February, data released by the Statistical Office showed on >>

Industrial output in Romania accelerated on an annual basis in January driven by mining and quarrying production gaining 6% and by manufacturing output adding 6.6%, the National Institute of Statistics >>

A Reserve Bank of Australia official says the large surge in employment growth in February will not, by itself, have an impact on the interest rate outlook. >>

Federal Reserve officials will spend much of a meeting next week debating the potential risks from the central bank's stimulus plan, but Chairman Ben Bernanke has already signaled he believes >>

Top leaders of the European Union (EU) Thursday held broad talks on growth without making concrete decisions on the first day of the two-day spring summit in Brussels, against the >>

Wheat futures for May settlement increased by 1.9% to 7.2325 per one bushel in morning session on the Chicago Board of Trade on Thursday. Price increases for a sixth day >>

Bank Rossi, the Central bank of Russia, most probably will keep the key interest rates unchanged at 8.25% level in tomorrow's meeting, according economists' consensus. The central bank resists authority pressure to help >>

The Colombian Peso advanced to 1,796.1 per the U.S. Dollar in early Bogota trading session on Thursday. That was the highest level of the currency in two weeks on an >>

German shares traded up on Thursday, as two-day summit of European leaders began in Brussels today. The DAX surged 0.8%, or 64.91 points, to 8,036.42, the highest value since January >>

U.K. stocks traded close to a five-year high on Thursday, as rallying shares of financial and telecommunications groups led gains in the benchmark index. The FTSE 100 advanced 0.4%, or >>

Hong Kong stocks fluctuated between gains and losses on Thursday. The Hang Seng Index increased 0.3% to 22,618.18 points, winning back the losses of 1.1% at the beginning of the >>

Japanese stocks rallied snapping a two-day streak of losses, sending the Nikkei 225 Stock Average index higher on rising optimism among investors prior to confirmation of a new leadership team >>