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Markit/CIPS PMI data for powerhouse UK service sector says employment and new business in sharpest rises for six years.

Heywood says the UK will have to endure "at least" four more years of austerity measures.

Business activity stabilises in commercial and civil engineering sub-sectors.

Manufacturing, exports and services see strong growth pointing to recovery.

Schroders’ European Economist Azad Zangana details what the future may hold for Britain with its new Bank of England leader

Investors to track PMI data from Germany, France, Italy and Spain.

Daniel Stewart & Co’s chief economist says it’s a mixed bag of fear over QE tapering process

Daniel Stewart & Co’s chief economist Alastair Winter says EMU problems are overshadowing the market

Daniel Stewart & Co's chief economist Alastair Winter previews China's incumbent problems and their market impact

Official and HSBC PMIs declined in June amid bank cash squeeze.

Japanese Nikkei finishes 10.32% higher while Shanghai Composite loses 11.51%.

Households spent more on food and cars in May. But the French are more cynical than ever about their future living conditions.

Irish GDP contracted 0.6% in first quarter of 2013, following a 0.2% contraction in fourth quarter.

Number of unemployed falls by 12,000 in June to 2.943 million.

Official GDP figures revised up in 2012 to erase double-dip recession, though output lower than thought compared to pre-crisis peak.

Except construction and government, all other sectors losing momentum.

Most indices flat as markets ignore EU agreement on troubled banks.

Billions of cuts made to departmental budgets in 2015/16 as chancellor claims British economy in recovery.

Insee confirms France's first-quarter GDP contracted by 0.2%.

German consumer sentiment rose to the highest level in almost six years, according to research group GfK.

British Chancellor George Osborne will announce £11.5bn ($17.7 billion) of spending cuts today

Chancellor George Osborne will keep education, health and international aid spending ringfenced.

As the EU looks again at reforming the Common Agricultural Policy, IBTimes UK looks at some of the facts.

World's oldest financial institution says governments should take more central role in economic planning - and tackle public debt problem.

Fires from slash and burn farming in Indonesia causing health and tourism fears in Singapore as smoke chokes country's economy.

Recession-hit Italy is looking for ways to plug revenue hole.

But low interest rates have boosted the mortgage market and the country is now staring at an overheating property market.

Italy is battling recession on a war footing and will invest €3bn on public infrastructure in 2013, creating 30,000 temporary jobs.

The Markit flash manufacturing PMI rose to a 16-month high at 48.7 from 48.3 in May.

ONS reports retail sales rise to £6.8bn a week in another positive indicator for ailing UK economy.