Consumer spending grew only marginally in the United Kingdom in January as consumers remained unsure about the economic conditions ahead, according to Barclaycard, which processes nearly 50% of all the UK's debit and credit card transactions.
Businesses have added 8.5 million jobs over the last 47 months and the unemployment rate ticked down to its lowest level in more than five years. But the economy is still healing and steps are still needed to expand economic opportunity, said the Council of Economic Advisers.
According to Statistics Canada, the Canadian economy created 29,000 jobs in January 2014 (seasonally adjusted data). With this increase, employment in the past 12 months grew by a total of 146,000 jobs, up by 0.8 per cent.
The HSBC Emerging Markets Index (EMI), a monthly indicator derived from the PMI surveys, fell for the second month running in January to 51.4, from 51.6 in December.
All nine English regions and Wales made a positive start to 2014 according to the latest Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking Regional Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), with both private sector output and employment rising strongly.
The Tunisian trade deficit has increased in January, to 863.2 million dinars ($540 million), as against 769.6 million dinars ($480.4 million) in January 2013, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INS).
Asia-Pacific airlines will need almost 13,000 new planes worth $1.9 trillion over the next two decades as rising wealth in the region fuels demand for air travel, according to Boeing.
The heat of merger and acquisition activity in the domestic dairy industry is expected to reach its peak in May, with time ticking for smaller and medium-sized enterprises to find buyers, an industry insider has observed.
Italy exported kidswear, including knitwear and woven apparel for boys and girls, worth 864 million euros in 2013, according to Sistema Moda Italia (SMI).
Russian authorities have issued warnings against using Bitcoin, saying the virtual currency could be used for money laundering or financing terrorism and that treating it as a parallel currency is illegal.
The volume of trade exchange between Saudi Arabia and Sudan reached more than $4 billion, and poised to hit $8 billion (SR30 billion), Abdulhafeez Mohammed Ibrahim, ambassador of Sudan to Saudi Arabia, told local media.
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