ECONOMY

Nielsen said Asia Pacific advertising spend drove global growth with sharp 7% rise.

The ONS says the country's jobless rate is just 0.1% off the BoE's threshold.

Asian brokerage launches a tongue-in-cheek financial forecast for the coming Year of the Wood Horse

Banking giant also warns UK leaving EU will reduce investment from international companies

Anglo-Dutch consumer goods maker's Paul Polman warns about Europe's competitiveness

Jimmy Reid Foundation says Scotland has lost out on 30-year bonanza of North Sea oil revenues.

International Monetary Fund sharply upgrades UK growth forecast for 2014.

IBTimes UK looks at what is driving house prices up across the country

Pakistan's Finance Ministry says ban will last for 30 days.

Yields on 10-year treasuries may climb to 3.45% in 2014.

The storm that hit Britain from Christmas Eve left 50,000 homes without electricity for five days

Forthcoming China PMI data may highlight slowing factory activity.

Boris Johnson's office hits back at Howard Davies comments over London mayor's 'colourful style'.

Existing political divide points to unstable government in India.

Egypt's tourism revenue sank by 41% to $5.9bn in 2013

Spain's Prime Minister: I'm absolutely convinced that things will go well for her

Poll by Edelman shows pessimism in UK about personal finances in 2014.

UK economy is expected to receive economic growth upgrade from IMF's World Economic Outlook.

Toyota plans to invest up to 20bn baht ($609m) in Thailand.

BoE policymaker David Miles co-authors report which says unwinding of QE is not necessarily dangerous.

London's first Satoshi Square gives bitcoin a level of human interaction it has so far lacked.

Unilever chief executive Paul Polman says collaboration is the key to sustainability.

Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael and SNP's Angus Robertson give separate speeches in Brussels and Dublin.

China said on Monday (January 20) that its economy grew 7.7 percent in 2013 after easing in the final three months on sagging investment growth, a cooldown that some analysts say is a sign of the more sober times ahead as the government wrestles to implement major reforms.

But the TUC says the likelihood of having a job has increased since the 2010 General Election.

Britain's banks and financial services firms have axed the number of job vacancies across London as they struggle to keep costs down following increased regulatory expenses and fines stemming from a variety of scandals.

Richest people are rigging rules to increase their wealth, says Oxfam.

Scottish government begins debt campaign to help people avoid payday lenders.

Rightmove house price index shows 6.4% leap across year in average asking price as supply falls.