UNEMPLOYMENT

Unemployment rate declines to 5.5% in April from 5.6% in March.

Markets await a string of key regional data apart from quarterly earnings reports.

Most Asian indices near a two-year peak boosted by positive earnings reports.

After IMF chief Christine Lagarde slammed US for 'severe' spending cuts, Lianna Brinded looks at what's in store for Britain.

Services PMI declines to 44.4 from 45.3 in March due to the economic crisis.

The European Central Bank head Mario Draghi will address the media later in the day.

An unexpected improvement in the US labour market lifts Asian market sentiments.

The members, including Beate Zschap, are accused of involvement in the murder of nine immigrants and a policewoman in Germany's worst wave of Nazi violence since World War Two.

Portugal is hoping to save €4.8bn with the budget cuts.

Non-farm payrolls increase by 165,000 in April, above analysts expectations of 145,000.

Nikkei declines the most during the week as earnings reports disappointed investors.

All the largest eurozone economies except Germany are predicted to be in recession this year.

Analysts expect the US non-farm payrolls to increase by 140,000 workers after an 88,000 gain in March.

Analysts expect a 25 basis point cut in the benchmark interest rate at the ECB meeting.

Asia has shed previous week's gains after weak data from the US and China brought back global growth concerns.

Weak job data with unemployment rising to 12.1% expected to prompt European Central Bank to cut interest rates at next meeting.

Spain’s economy contracts for the seventh consecutive quarter as unemployment surges

Investors expect the ECB and the US Federal Reserve to continue their growth-supportive monetary policies.

Rising inflation in the county add to households' concerns about meeting budgets.

I was leaving Singapore which had been "home" for the previous 10 months and had asked the teller at the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank on Collyer Quay for the balance of my account in the form of a sterling draft. A little surprised, I was told that a manager would see me shortly and I was duly ushered into a rather plush interview room wondering what could possibly be amiss. My account was worth £360 in sterling which, using the retail price index, equates to £2,400 in 2013, so hardly a fortu...

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