ECONOMY

The full text of prime minister's speech in Manchester

Protesters were cleared from longest continuous protest in Europe before conference on monetary policy.

World Gold Council says Chinese demand is driven by market curbs on real estate sector and as a hedge against inflation.

Spain's nationalised lender and its fourth-largest bank, Bankia, plunges in Madrid over solvency concerns

David Cameron prefers the single currency bloc to sort out its own problems.

Asian economies fear catastrophic fallout of a possible Greek exit from the EU.

World Bank President Robert Zoellick has been quoted as saying that the core question will be not Greece, but Spain and Italy.

The Bank of England under the direction of its governor Mervyn King today revised down its growth projections for the British economy this year and is now saying that the nation will not reach pre-crisis levels until 2014.

Bank of England economists have cut their growth forecast for the UK economy in 2012 by a third, as the eurozone crisis weighs on the economy.

The UK's biggest department store group shows increased sales but other retailers are not so upbeat.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the owners of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant devastated by the March 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, reported a net-loss of $9.7 billion for the full year ending 31 March 2012. Reporting its annual figures on 14 May, these figures reflected an improvement of some 35 per cent over 2011's figures but insufficient to avoid 09 May's effective nationalisation of the company.

Unemployment has fallen in March, defying expectations of a rise after news that the UK has re-entered recession.

FBI and the US Justice Department are launching a criminal inquiry into trading practices of JPMorgan following its revelation of $2bn (£1.2bn) loss.

Gold, oil, shares fall around the world as Euro break-up speculation grips investors

France's new Socialist President Francois Hollande met the German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin and both leaders promised to work together to bring back growth in the recession-hit eurozone.

German economic growth rose well above expectations in the first quarter this year, proving that the contraction in country’s gross domestic product (GDP) in the fourth quarter last year was not the start of recession.

In the latest European Fund Managers Survey from BofA Merrill Lynch investors have stayed calm in the hope that the European Central Bank will control the eurozone crisis with more QE.

Strong growth in non-EU exports helped boost overall growth in exports, though minimal growth in EU exports held the total back.

Chancellor George Osborne and Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King should blame domestic austerity for recession and a lack of growth, says Barclays.

Investors braced for second day of volatility in global financial markets as Europe's crisis nears the end game

World markets fall as Greece's euro exit looms large following failure of talks to form coalition government.

Political developments across the region look set to dictate critical week for future of the eurozone.

Spain's Indignados fill streets to march against austerity measures that have not brought any improvement to the country's economic situation.

Moody's is also reviewing JPMorgan for a possible downgrade.

Chancellor George Osborne has suffered a downpour of bad economic news for the UK in recent months and there looks like no end to Britain's economic woes

Donald Rumsfeld's famous quote sums up perfectly the concerns gripping investors around the world

The slowdown in the economic activity of China continued in April as the weakening external demand and domestic consumption hit the industrial activity in the world’s second largest economy to reach its lowest level since May 2009, showing evidence that decelerating growth in the country is to yet find the bottom.

The booming emerging markets may spearhead a further rise in global stock indexes as the growth spurt enjoyed by some major Western markets since the start of the year declines.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said it may have to revise its first quarter GDP estimates down to a worse contraction after abysmal construction sector data.