Northern Europe, Asia Lead Economy Poll
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Northern Europe and key Asian countries remained home to the most competitive economies worldwide, cementing their ranks among the top 10 in an annual survey conducted by the World Economic Forum.
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Asian leaders, increasingly confident of their region's economic and political clout, are due to tackle issues ranging from trade to security with their European counterparts at a Helsinki summit.
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INDUSTRY is gearing up for a push to reform the European Union&#39;s sluggish markets and to boost the skills of Britain&#39;s workforce as hundreds of thousands of jobs are sucked away to Asia or Eastern Europe.
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Business confidence in Germany, France and Italy, the biggest of the 12 economies using the euro, probably fell this month, suggesting economic growth may struggle to accelerate, surveys of economists showed.
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Investor's Business Daily - Competition: European elites love to deride America's rough-and-tumble economy as a crude game of winner-take-all. Their economy, they insist, is far superior. But a new study suggests that view is very wrong.
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US nationals and Europeans are warming towards globalisation and international trade, although anxiety about the impact on jobs still runs high, a survey has shown.
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Denmark is now the EU's most competitive and dynamic economy, according to a report.
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Many nations in Europe are now feeling an autumn chill of slackening economies and warnings of further market upheaval.
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Europeans take a dim view of their economy's condition and only about one-third of EU citizens believe the bloc will be the world's top economic performer by 2010, according to an opinion poll released Wednesday.
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The 13 nations that share Europe&#39;s single currency are ending the first half of the year at a brisk economic pace despite the strong euro, soaring oil prices and rising interest rates, official data showed Friday.
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Guardian poll shows 55% of voters feel confident despite economic chills
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Growth has slowed in the United States, but economies in Asia and Europe are surging and snatching up more and more American exports.
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Surging oil prices are weighing on business sentiment in Germany, the eurozone's biggest economy, a new poll showed.
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Immigration from new EU countries has helped put UK economy cope with growing pressures from Asia, peers say.
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Stock markets rose across Europe and Asia, oil prices edged up and the US dollar was modestly higher Wednesday as US President Bush crept closer to re-election in a tight race for the White House.
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Europe's bigger economies register yet more productivity growth, while the UK starts to fall behind.
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Nordic countries are leading the way in global economic competitiveness, with Finland topping the World Economic Forum's latest rankings.