ECONOMY

Number of jobless French creeps up to 10.8%, highest level since 1998.

HMRC charts show regional breakdown of UK trade and how importers growing faster than exporters.

Citi and EIU research says London will rise significantly in terms of economic strength between 2012 and 2025

Blurgroup.com’s chief speaks exclusively in a two-part interview on web commerce platforms, internet currency pre-Bitcoin and crowd funding

Halifax index shows credit easing schemes - FLS and Help to Buy - massaging mortgage market.

Bank of England and European Central Bank to announce rates decision.

China's solar firms Trina Solar, Suntech Power and Yingli Green Energy to be hit by EU duties.

Improving economic data in May will prompt the European Central Bank to freeze interest rates

CIPD survey shows that even those working in the financial sector believe they are being paid too much

Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange said bumper payment to the state is not enough and called for more claims

US jobs data and China growth concerns pull down markets.

Paris-based ESMA could take over regulation of key benchmark rates, including Euribor, in line with European Union proposals.

IBTimes UK looks at some of the issues plaguing troubled supermarket giant..

Furse also on Fortis’ board when it was bailed out following disastrous ABN Amro takeover.

Gallup Europe says anti-EU sentiment to help nationalist candidates in the 2014 European Parliament elections

EC announces Latvia is ready to become the 18th country using the euro despite high foreign deposits

Separate data by Eurostat showed retail sales dropped 0.5% in April.

China launches Europe wine anti-dumping probe.

Ikea founder quits the board of Inter IKEA Group but Mathias Kamprad takes over

Businesses should be incentivised to take on apprenticeships if we want to tackle unemployment, says UKCES Commissioner Scott Johnson

Markit/CIPS PMI data shows forecast-beating service sector bounce in May as figures suggest UK recovery in sight.

Chairman says bank is working with new watchdog PRA and appoints Morrisons' Richard Pennycook as finance director

Nomura resumes paying out bonuses while Daiwa doubles top executive compensation and aims to hire more bankers

Investors will track services PMI data from the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain.

Tesco reports 1% like-for-like sales drop in the UK and disappointing international performance in first quarter.

Prime Minister Abe targets 3% yearly growth in per capita income via third arrowlooks

Breaking the glass ceiling means more than increasing boardroom pioneers such as Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer

The HSBC services PMI inches up to 51.2 in May from 51.1 in April.

BRC/Nielsen Shop Price Index reports first headline deflation reading for three and a half years - why?