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State of the economy The Chancellor’s budget revealed some highs and lows regarding the current state of the UK economy. Primarily, Osborne announced that the growth forecast for this year…

A study by professional service company PwC found there was a ten-fold increase in the number of high street shops shutting down in 2012 compared to 2011. The data came…

The euro has officially risen significantly on encouraging signs about the United States and European debt crises. New reports have shown that borrowing costs on Italian bonds are now the…

The United States central bank has announced that it is launching a third round of quantitative easing. Central bank leader Benjamin Bernanke hopes that the latest stimulus measures will help…

The Eurozone debt crisis has waged on for well over a year. Many experts are starting to become very nervous about the state of mainland Europe. Politicians have tried to…

Investors breathed a sigh of relief when the conservative New Democracy Party won the recent elections. This party has pledged to work with EU leaders to ensure their nation can…

Cristobal Montoro, the Budget Minister of Spain, has stated that the country has been effectively shut out of the bond markets. Montoro said that investors are becoming nervous about the…

Global financial markets tumbled on Monday as investors received more bad news from Greece. President Papoulias had hoped that he would be able to unify a new government over the…

The official report on United States GDP growth for the first quarter of 2012 was published last Friday. The report found that GDP growth was a tepid 2.2%. This figure…

Economists have been predicting that China is going to grow to be the world’s next economic superpower. However, some analysts speculate that those projections are inflated and that China’s grow…