ECONOMY

ONS labour market data shows worsening picture for both employed and unemployed.

Carmakers such as PSA Peugeot Citroen, Ford Motor and Volkswagen experience a slowdown in demand.

Bank of England governor Mervyn King fails to convince colleagues on merits of £25bn expansion to quantitative easing programme

Energy giant says it didn’t need to because it had invested billions in “building power plants, creating jobs”

Burberry posts 9 percent total revenue growth for the six months to March 31 boosted by Asia Pacific sales.

Wall Street's strong gains on positive economic data help European markets to open on a higher note.

Europe's biggest food retailer will close "Fresh & Easy" brand in the United States as CEO Philip Clarke continues his aim to focus on UK growth

International Monetary Fund predicts just 0.7 percent growth for UK economy in 2013.

International Monetary Fund says advanced nations will expand at a 1.2 percent pace, compared to 5.3 percent for emerging and developing economies.

Institute for Public Policy Research makes youth unemployment prediction and highlights London and North East as most affected regions.

Goldman earnings rise 5.5 percent in first quarter after 36 percent surge in investment banking revenue.

City of Siena prosecutors reveal they are seizing billions of euros of Nomura assets as part of Monte Paschi's derivatives losses probe

Regional disparity in property sector widens in February despite the slow down in house price inflation.

Huge gold and crude oil imports are the major factors for India's widening current account deficit.

Snowy weather helped lift online retail sales as UK consumers chose to shop at home in warm.

ZEW's benchmark sentiment index falls 12.2 points to 36.3 as Cyprus rescue, economic data, pare optimism

Office for National Statistics reports CPI inflation stuck at highest reading since May 2012.

Britain's opposition party pushes for amendments to banking reform bill to prevent large scale financial scandals

Lower commodity prices and explosions at the Boston Marathon event dragged Wall Street to record lows.

A Deloitte survey of CFOs contradicts with an official study that said bank lending to small businesses declined.

Weak economic growth data from China and lower commodity prices have earlier dragged US stocks down to a five-month low.

Financial Conduct Authority data shows Barclays received most customer complaints in second half of 2012.

Reuben Guttman at Grant & Eisenhofer says UK should learn from US programmes to detect scandals

Third-largest US bank says profits rose by 31 percent in the first full quarter under new CEO Michael Corbat.

MEP Sharon Bowles says European nations have been shocking and shameful in wake of Cyprus crisis.

Emerging economies such as China and Russia bucked general trend with rises in military spending.

Yen's weakness and growing investor sentiment in the country are cited as reasons for better industrial production data.

PwC says Lehman's administrators settled benchmark dispute and has freed $9.1bn for paying back investors

Survey of firms by British Chambers of Commerce shows 64 percent think Cameron right to push for new terms on EU.