Britain's central bank kept its flagship policies unchanged on Thursday, as the policymakers need more time to gauge the impact of forward guidance, introduced by Mark Carney in August.
Ahead of the key Federal Reserve's meeting, where Bernanke is expected to decide whether to start tapering of its quantitative easing or continue stimulating the world's largest economy, several reports from the U.S. labour market are suggesting the market continues to notch slows, but steady gains.
Policymakers in Frankfurt decided to refrain from any additional stimulus measure, at a time when the Eurozone countries seem to have finally shown some signs of stabilization, leading to the revision of the economic outlook.
During the last two decades Australian economy has shown a stable growth and avoided falling into recession, fed by a boom from mining sector, and now due to waning output from mining sector and slowdown in the Chinese economy, this rally could be coming to a close.
As it was widely expected Canadian policymakers stayed pat on the monetary policy, as trade gap widened, supporting a view current policy is appropriate as an expected rotation of demand to exports and investment has not yet come.
A rush of new companies in August drove the fastest growth in the U.K. services sector for more than six years, survey from Markit showed Wednesday, challenging official cautious estimates.
The difference in the number of exported and imported goods and services widened in July from an almost four-year low, due to soaring imports prices and falling exports.
Fresh signs the 17-nation economy is on the path of sustain recovery emerged on Wednesday, as retail sales ticked up, services PMI expanded, and the gross domestic product returned to growth.
Following a series of mixed reports from the Alpine country and central bank's projections of a weak second quarter growth, Tuesday's data surprised markets to the upside, as the economy expanded more than expected in the second quarter.
As it was widely expected the Reserve Bank of Australia left its key refinancing rate unchanged amid signs of a pickup in housing market and as a significant depreciation in the Aussie eases pressure on the economy just before the general elections.
Amid growing debates whether the world's third largest economy is strong enough to withstand the planned sales tax hike, fresh data is raising concerns it is too early to speak about sustain economic recovery and bright prospects.
Activity at Britain's key construction sector expanded at the fastest pace in almost six years last month, mostly driven by residential building, survey from Markit showed Tuesday.
U.S. manufacturing and construction spending rose more-than-expected, hinting the world's biggest economy was picking up steam, and potentially reinforcing views the Fed will soon taper its unprecedented asset-buying programme.
The number of people out of work in Europe's fourth largest economy stagnated last month after falling for five consecutive months, decreasing pressure on the government and adding to evidence of a nascent economic recovery.
Activity at Swiss manufacturing sector expanded for a fifth consecutive month in August, albeit at a slower pace, due to a drop in production and stocks, suggesting a modest recovery is underway.
Approvals for the construction of new houses rose sharply in July, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said Monday.
Another bunch of stronger-than-expected data from the U.K. came out on Monday, as manufacturing index climbed to its highest in 2 1/2 years, while new orders accelerated at the fastest pace in almost 20 years, boosting hopes the recovery is broadening and the economy will continue strengthening in the coming months.
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Eurozone manufacturing recovery gathered pace last month, with manufacturing PMI hitting the highest since June 2011, as the sector expanded across the majority of European countries, including struggling to grow Spain and Italy.
The Alpine country is widely expected to gain momentum in the upcoming months, buoyed partially by an improvement in business sentiment in neighbouring Eurozone countries, the leading Swiss indicator showed Friday.
The pace of growth in consumer prices in the world's third largest economy soared most since 2008 in July, as weak Yen drove up the cost of energy and Japanese policymakers makes progress in pulling the economy out of decades of deflation.
Another signs British economy is on the path of sustain recovery came out on Friday, as the number of mortgage approvals rose to the highest since March 2008, house prices continued to soar in August, while confidence among Britain's reached the highest level in almost four years.
After an upbeat growth report on Thursday, news that consumer spending in the world's largest economy rose less than initially was expected was unexpected by market participants.
Despite the overall economic improvement in the 17-nation economy, the labour market still remains a major concern for the policymakers as the overall unemployment rate remained unchanged at all-time high in July.