SYDNEY, May 2 Reuters Australian job advertisements dipped in April from multiyear highs, but still point to continued strong demand for labour that will likely soon drive unemployment to its lowest since the early 1970s. Monday39;s figures from Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd showed total job ads fell 0.5 in April from March. Ads […]

SYDNEY, May 2 Reuters Australian home prices were still rising nationally in April even as more of the heat came out of the Sydney and Melbourne markets, with the smaller cities and regions proving resilient to the risk of higher mortgage rates. Figures from property consultant CoreLogic out on Monday showed prices in the combined […]

NEW DELHI, May 1 Reuters India39;s unemployment rate rose to 7.83 in April from 7.60 in March, data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy CMIE showed on Sunday. The urban unemployment rate rose to 9.22 in April from 8.28 the previous month, while the rural unemployment rate slipped to 7.18 from 7.29, the data […]

Hong Kong Q1 GDP 4 yy vs Q4 GDP of revised 4.7 yy Q1 GDP sadj 2.9 qq HONG KONG, May 3 Reuters Hong Kong39;s economy contracted in the first quarter of this year as the city imposed its most stringent restrictions to curb an outbreak of COVID19 that has battered business, led to an […]

BERLIN, May 3 Reuters German unemployment fell in April, Labour Office figures showed on Tuesday, though the effect of the war in Ukraine slowed a continued recovery seen since the lifting of coronavirus pandemic measures. The Federal Labour Office said the number of people out of work fell by 13,000 in seasonally adjusted terms to […]

FRANKFURT, April 28 Reuters One in three managers at the European Central Bank is German, giving the ECB39;s host country an ever bigger representation than its size would imply, ECB data showed on Thursday. The ECB39;s first breakdown of its staff and management by nationality also showed that France, the euro zone39;s secondlargest country, was […]

PARIS, April 29 Reuters French inflation rose unexpectedly in April to hit a record high driven by surging energy prices, preliminary EUharmonised data showed on Friday, putting fresh pressure on newly reelected President Emmanuel Macron. The INSEE statistics agency said consumer prices rose 0.5 in April, for a 12month inflation rate of 5.4, up from […]

BENGALURU, April 29 Reuters The Reserve Bank of Australia will raise interest rates for the first time in more than a decade on Tuesday and join a long list of central banks now expected to tighten policy at a much faster pace than previously thought, a Reuters poll found. A surge in inflation to the […]

Govt cooking oil distribution move will succeed industry group GAPKI warns of damage from prolonged ban Wednesday39;s lastminute policy shift rattles markets Rupiah falls to weakest since July 2021 Navy seizes two tankers carrying palm oil JAKARTA, April 28 Reuters Indonesia should be able to tackle its cooking oil shortage in the next few weeks […]

BERLIN, April 28 Reuters German annual inflation rose slightly more than expected in April due to rising energy prices and delivery bottlenecks caused by supply chain interruptions, preliminary data showed on Thursday. Consumer prices, harmonised to make them comparable with inflation data from other European Union countries HICP, rose 7.8 on the year after 7.6 […]