Bengaluru, May 2 Reuters Factory activity in India picked up last month, bolstered by a solid increase in demand as pandemic restrictions were eased, but rising energy prices pushed input costs to a fivemonth high, a private survey showed. International demand also jumped robustly to a 9month high after contracting in March and domestic demand […]

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 […]

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 […]

LONDON, April 29 Reuters British house prices rose less than expected this month after expanding in March at the fastest pace since 2004, figures from mortgage lender Nationwide showed on Friday. Annual price growth slowed to 12.1 in April from March39;s 18year peak of 14.3, after a 0.3 monthly increase which was the smallest since […]

LONDON, April 28 Reuters The British public39;s expectations for inflation have fallen after rising for several months, according to a survey that the Bank of England keeps track of as it considers how fast it needs to keep raising interest rates. U.S. bank Citi and polling firm YouGov said their gauge of expectations for inflation […]

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 […]