Britain’s retail sales volume declined by 0.3 percent compared with August 2014, though it increased by 2.7 percent in September 2014 compared with September 2013, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said on Thursday.
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Lloyds Banking Group, one of the largest high street banks in Britain, Wednesday is reported to cut about 9,000 jobs, or 11 percent of its workforce, in the next three years.
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U.S. Fed Board Governors held an open meeting to discuss a final rulemaking requiring sponsors of securitization transactions to retain risk in those transactions.
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Crude prices went down Wednesday as U.S. crude supplies of last week increased more than expected.
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U.S. consumer prices rose slightly in September, better than market expectation, the Labor Department said on Wednesday.
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U.S. stocks retreated Wednesday, as investors looked for excuses to sell stocks after the S&P 500 posted its best day of the year in the previous session.
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Two out of the nine-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of Bank of England (BoE) voted to raise benchmark interest rate, according the central bank’s meeting minutes published on Wednesday.
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Vietnam will maximize its efforts to narrow economic gap with other countries, Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang said on Wednesday.
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Drilling by an Italian-South Korean energy consortium for natural gas in a section of Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone is going on normally despite harassment by Turkish navy vessels, the Cypriot Energy Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Austrians are the highest money savers in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), saving on average 238 U.S. dollars a month, Erste Group reported in its Savings Barometer Wednesday.