Global manufacturing took another step towards growth in June - but the process was, as ever, uneven. The JPMorgan Global Manufacturing PMI posted 46.9, its highest reading since last August. The current output component even expanded slightly...

Euro area retail business conditions continued to deteriorate in June, with sales, employment, purchasing of stock and margins all falling when compared with May. The Bloomberg Euro-Zone Retail Purchasing Managers' Index did however rise from 47.1 to...

The eurozone economies moved sideways in June, with the flash reading on the composite purchasing managers index (which covers both industry and services) for the 16 nation euro area rising to 44.4, fractionally above the 44 registered in May. So we...

Quietly clicking my way through Bloomberg last Sunday afternoon, I came across this: Facebook Members Register Names at 550 a Second Facebook Inc., the world’s largest social-networking site, said members registered new user names at a rate of more...

Everything in Germany is going up, except it seems the real economy - and except of course prices, which were stationary in May (that is a change of 0% year on year - the lowest inflation rate for over 20 years). Anyway, today it was the turn of...