ECONOMY

Weak monsoon rainfall could push growth down to 5.4% in fiscal 2014-15.

The US technology giant has launched a new educational programme to address the region's skills gap.

China Vice Premier Wang Yang said moving too fast on reforms could be fatal to Beijing.

A report from MasterCard predicts that over 18 million people will visit London this year

USD/INR had fallen 0.3% on Tuesday as the railway budget proposed more foreign direct investment into infrastructure development.

Arctic Monkeys and Katie Melua are also said to have sunk funds into tax avoidance scheme Liberty.

Kremlin chief of staff sharpens rhetoric with no end in sight to long-running gas dispute.

Benoit Coeure, who sits on ECB executive board, says UK quitting EU would be 'enormous shock.'

Russian minister says bank's HQ to be decided at Fortaleza summit on July 15-16.

China's June CPI came in at 2.3% year-on-year from 2.5% in May and compared with the consensus of 2.4%. The PPI declined 1.1% while analysts had been expecting a 1% drop.

Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Town was allowed to sell houses in central Shanghai at record prices.

IBTimes UK talks to consumers after Oxford Street was named world's most polluted street.

Writers are struggling to make a living as wages have dramatically fallen since 2005.

Sisi had pledged to focus on helping the poorest in Egyptian society during his election campaign.

Spot silver has performed the best against the US dollar compared to gold and major currencies while palladium has rallied to a new 13-year high.

NIESR monthly GDP estimate shows 0.9% growth of UK economy in second quarter.

Talks aim to cut tariffs on goods such as solar panels and wind turbines.

The KRG is hopeful oil output could spike in the next few years to one million barrels of oil per day.

Miliband says previous governments had wrongly 'believed that there is only one route to success'.

Continued increase in the buy-side speculative positioning in Sterling underpins the case for a stronger reversal in it unless there is an even more hawkish central bank to support.

Miliband tells IBTimes UK that he could do huge amounts in the short-term to address the issue.

Falling manufacturing output drives wider drop in production, but recovery not at risk.

EU to announce targets on Wednesday as Obama and Hollande say Russia must stop destabilising Ukraine.

British Chambers of Commerce says firms still struggling to get credit from banks.

FDI only in infrastructure and not operations, says railway minister Sadananda Gowda.

Proposed Nicaragua Canal to compete with 100-year-old Panama Canal.

USD/CAD had been trading higher since 3 July despite the better than expected trade and building permits data released since then.

REC and KPMG said the index dropped to 28.9 in June for permanent staff availability.

Ipsos MORI says degree-level apprenticeships are favoured among 16 to 25-year-olds.