Italy econ minister sees global slowdown: report
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The global economy is likely to slow due to the impact of a big correction in the U.S. balance of payments deficit but should avoid recession, Italian Economy Minister Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa told the Financial Times.
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Italian manufacturers confidence stagnated in October, highlighting concern that record oil prices will damp consumer spending and slow the pace of growth in the 12 nations sharing the euro.
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A gauge of future economic activity showed the U.S. economy will slow in coming months, reversing recent gains and suggesting higher gas prices and a sluggish construction industry are beginning to take their toll
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EMERYVILLE, California  - A slowdown could keep   the U.S. economy from growing at a sustainable pace into   sometime next year, San Francisco Federal Reserve President   Janet Yellen said on Tuesday.
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The United States economy faces a significant economic slowdown that should lead the Federal Reserve to ease interest rates, a senior O.E.C.D. official said today.
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Europe's efforts to catch up to and then outpace the US economy have been &quot;a big failure,&quot; the outgoing head of the European Union executive commission, Romano Prodi, told the Financial Times in an interview.
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PARIS : Eurozone indicators to be released in the coming week should confirm that the pace of economic growth slowed in the third quarter, economists say.
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"Growth will slow down, due to increased global risk"  Germany's economy minister and a leading economic institute said Wednesday they expect 2008 growth to cool amid rising food and oil prices and fallout from the U.S. subprime mortgage loan crisis.Economy Minster Michael Glos was quoted by the mass-circulation Bild daily as saying the government was scaling back its forecast for 2008 to just under 2 percent. He did not give an exact figure.The Berlin-based DIW economic institute said it expected gross domestic product to expand by 2.1 percent in the coming year, following growth of at least 2.4 percent in 2007. Read more
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US economic growth should slow over the coming year as consumers cut back on spending, but improved business confidence should help hiring, a wide-ranging survey of forecasters found.
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The European economy slowed significantly in the second quarter as spending lagged, official reports showed on Tuesday, and economists expected growth in the region to be soft into early next year as consumers ...
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Italy's new deputy economics minister on Tuesday called the nation's economic situation "a disaster," saying the deficit in 2006 may exceed 4.5 percent of gross domestic product.
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The eurozone economy got slapped with a wave of bad news that highlighted a third-quarter slowdown, a decline in industrial activity and a stagnant job market.
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The slowdown in economic growth seen in the 12-country eurozone in the third quarter of this year is only "temporary," the European Central Bank's chief economist Otmar Issing said in a newspaper interview.
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Germany&#39;s leading economic research institutes are expected to predict a slowdown in economic growth in their autumn reports Tuesday.
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China can manage to slow its roaring economy to a sustainable level, but only if it avoids loosening curbs on lending and investment too quickly, the International Monetary Fund said Wednesday.
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The growth of the euro-zone economy slowed in the final quarter of 2004 as Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Greece each experienced a contraction in output, European Union data showed Tuesday.
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Germany's economic recovery will slow in 2005 as high oil prices and the strong euro threaten Europe's largest economy, the government's council of economic advisers said Wednesday.