China's vast manufacturing sector kept up its steady recovery last month, ignoring the gloom engulfing the Shanghai stock market, a pair of surveys showed on Tuesday.
The two indexes, compiled from polls of executives charged with purchasing materials, rose to a 16-month high as companies continu...
The eurozone's annual rate of inflation was negative in August for the third consecutive month.
Prices in the 16-nation bloc fell 0.2% in the past year, Eurostat said, following the record 0.7% fall in July.
Inflation in the eurozone has been dragged down by lower energy and food prices and by fal...
European consumer prices dropped less than economists forecast in August as the economy recovered from the deepest slump in six decades.
Prices in the 16-member euro region fell 0.2 percent from the year-earlier month after declining a record 0.7 percent in July, the European Union statistics off...
Italian retail sales fell 0.4% month-on-month in June after a revised increase of 0.1% in May, statistical office Istat said Monday. Economists had forecast retail sales to grow 0.2%.
Compared to the previous year, retail sales were down 0.8% following a revised drop of 2.5% in the prior month, ...
Business economists are split on whether the Federal Reserve's massive infusion of credit into the economy will lead to inflation in the next couple of years.
Half of 266 members of the National Association for Business Economics surveyed in August said the Fed's decisions to increase the money s...
Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa said on Monday that the Japanese economy was showing some signs of a recovery, although he added that uncertainty over the economic outlook remained high.
Shirakawa's assessment of the state of the economy was brighter than the central bank's latest monthl...