The largest bank of Italy, UniCredit, reported that in the first quarter of 2018 net profit rose to 1.1 billion euros, the finversia.ru project wrote with reference to the bank's accounts. Net profit growth was the best result of the bank since ...
Sales of British clothing retailer Next in the first fiscal quarter ended May 7, amounted to about 40 million pounds, exceeding the company's forecasts due to better weather in April. A week before the end of February, Next sales fell by 10% ...
Last week, the number of US citizens, who had applied for unemployment benefits for the first time, was 211,000, remaining unchanged from the previous week, the country's Ministry of Labor reported. Experts had expected the growth of the indicator ...
Industrial production in Italy increased by 1.2% in March compared to February, when the index fell by 0.5%, as Istat data showed. March's growth exceeded expectations of the analysts, who had predicted an increase of only 0.5%. Industrial ...
Property Price Index in the UK in April fell to its lowest level since November 2012 - minus 8 points, according to Bloomberg, citing data from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. The largest price decrease was observed in London ...
The surplus of Japan's trade balance in the 2017 financial year, which ended on March 31, 2018, declined by 21%. As reported by the Ministry of Finance of Japan, the decline was due to rising costs for increased in price oil and natural gas. ...
The British telecommunications company BT Group said that its revenue will decrease, because in the next 3 years it must pay 2.1 billion pounds to finance the pension deficit, which is 11.3 billion pounds, Bloomberg reports. BT predicts in ...
Royal Bank of Scotland has reached a preliminary agreement with the US Department of Justice on the payment of $4.9 billion to settle claims through the investigation of transactions with mortgage securities, Bloomberg reports. The bank hopes ...
The Bank of England retained the benchmark interest rate at 0.5% per annum. The volume of the program of redemption of state bonds is left at the level of 435 billion pounds, the volume of purchase of corporate bonds - at the level of 10 billion ...
In March, industrial production in the UK increased by 0.1% compared to February, when the rise was also 0.1%. In annual terms, growth was 2.9%, according to the Office for National Statistics. Analysts had predicted the growth of the first ...
Shell Gas, a division of British-Dutch oil and gas company Royal Dutch Shell, reported the sale of its stake in Canadian Natural Resources, which is developing oil sands in Canada, the finversia.ru project wrote. It is noted that Shell Gas ...
The demand for gold in China, the world's largest consumer of this precious metal, is moving downwards, according to an analysis of China's foreign trade statistics for the first quarter conducted by the research agency GFMS. According to analyst ...
Property prices in the UK unexpectedly slowed their growth, it added signs of weakness in the UK housing market and the consumer economy as a whole, Reuters reports. According to the Halifax mortgage lender, in April home prices in the country ...
According to the data of the Chinese customs administration, in April the trade surplus of the PRC with the US rose to 22 billion 190 million dollars from 15 billion 430 million dollars in March. In the first four months of 2018, China's trade ...
In April 2018, China increased oil imports by 4% to 39 million 460 thousand tons, which is a record indicator for the time of settlement, the data of the Main Customs Administration of the People's Republic of China showed. Over the period ...
The net profit of the Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo grew by 39% year-on-year to €1 billion 250 million in the first quarter, thanks to an increase in net interest income, commission fees and insurance revenue. Analysts had expected the profit ...
Europe's largest equipment manufacturer, the German concern Siemens has reached an agreement with the unions on the reduction of 7,000 jobs. The concern reported on the harmonization of cost saving measures for the units “Energy and Gas Production” ...
The chief economist and member of the executive board of the European Central Bank, Peter Prat, speaking in Geneva, said he was confident in the economic recovery of the eurozone, despite disappointing economic data, Bloomberg reports. According ...
British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson criticized the proposal for a customs partnership with the European Union, for which Prime Minister Teresa May spoke and which was supported by Finance Minister Philip Hammond, Daily Mail writes. The British ...
The net profit of Munich Re, the second-largest reinsurance company, in the first quarter increased by 49% to €827 million due to a reduction in losses. Net investment income of the company decreased for the quarter to 1.8 billion euros from ...