Update 5: European Central Bank Ups Growth Forecast
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The European Central Bank on Thursday raised its economic growth forecast for the 12 nations using the euro and kept its key interest rate steady at record lows as it waits for the recovery to firm up.
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As policy makers around the world respond to the threat of accelerating inflation, The Bank of England yesterday raised interest rates for the fifth time in little less than a year and Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, hinted at a possible rate increase later this year .
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The European Central Bank keeps its key interest rate on hold at 3.5%, in a widely-expected move.
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Citing a risk of higher inflation, the European Central Bank raised its interest rate to 3.25 percent.
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"All ministers stated their satisfaction with the way the ECB operated over the summer. They did everything they could to prevent financial markets from developing in a way that could have been dangerous."  Continuing financial market turbulence poses increasing risks to the eurozone's economic growth outlook in spite of a swift and robust response from the European Central Bank, eurozone finance ministers said on ... via Financial Times
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Reuters Group Plc  raised its  annual revenue growth outlook to between 5 percent and 6  percent on a constant currency basis from a previous forecast  of about 5 percent, after it posted a first-half gain of 9  percent.
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NEW YORK The dollar rose Wednesday as the European Central Bank signaled that the region&#39;s benchmark rate would stay at a half-century low amid speculation that the Federal Reserve will lift its rate target at least once more this year.
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European equities edged higher on Wednesday, with banks leading the advance after investors welcomed forecast-beating results from Anglo Irish Bank and an upbeat trading statement from Royal Bank of Scotland.
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The European Central Bank boosts liquidity in the banking system again after warning of fresh volatility in the markets.
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The Federal Reserve yesterday raised its key interest rate for the fifth time since June, signaling that it expects the economy to grow moderately and interest rates to rise gradually in the new year.
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Switzerland raised interest rates for the seventh time in a row on Thursday, as the central bank acknowledged that opening the country&#39;s borders to European Union citizens had accelerated economic growth.
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European stocks extended recent gains to 5&frac12;-year highs on Thursday, with miners and oil stocks in the vanguard of the advance as metals and crude prices rose on commodities exchanges.
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Bank of England raises interest rates by a quarter point to 5.75%, their highest level for six-and-a-half years.
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) upgraded its gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast for the Philippines from 5% to 5.5%, it was learned Wednesday.
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The European Central Bank held its main interest rates steady Thursday against a background of rising inflation and slowing growth, shortly after the Bank of England (BoE) did the same.
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It&#39;s the fastest-growing economy in Europe, in the fifth year of a boom that has seen gross domestic product climb by over a third since 1999.
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The European Central Bank is sounding markedly more confident these days than it had earlier this year about the economic recovery in the 12 countries that use the euro.