LONDON, March 25 Reuters British retail sales edged up in March after falling in the previous 10 months but stores expect sales volumes to slip again in April, according to industry figures which echoed official data published last week. The Confederation of British Industry39;s CBI monthly retail sales balance, a gauge of sales over the […]

BEIJING, March 25 Reuters A job advert from a Chinese grocery store seeking cashiers aged 18 to 30 has triggered a flood of anguished social media posts from older people scrambling to find work in a sluggish economy. Some said the ad highlighted the plight of a huge middleaged section of the population as the government […]

LISBON, March 25 Reuters Portugal swung to a strongerthanexpected budget surplus of 1.2 of GDP last year from a deficit in 2022, official data showed on Monday, the last day of the Socialist government39;s eightyear rule in which it posted annual surpluses twice. As part of the country39;s excessive deficit procedure reported to Brussels, the […]

ACCRA, March 25 Reuters Ghana39;s central bank on Monday maintained its key interest rate at 29, saying the inflation outlook had worsened slightly over the past two months and required close monitoring. The West African cocoa, gold and oil producer has been restructuring its debts as it tries to emerge from its worst economic crisis […]

March 25 Reuters Leading German economic institutes have slashed their joint forecast for growth in Germany this year, to 0.1 from a previous 1.3, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday. The institutes forecast the nation39;s gross domestic product GDP to increase by 1.4 in 2025, slightly revised from 1.5 previously. Business daily […]