Business surveys published earlier today paint a mixed picture of global manufacturing conditions. Activity in China appears to have stabilised, but the sharp fall in the US ISM index suggests, at...

Money and credit growth in the major advanced economies have held up remarkably well this year, despite overall economic growth remaining lacklustre. Indeed, lending to households is now expanding...

This week’s Jackson Hole conference is unlikely to shine much light on the immediate outlook formonetary policy either in the US or elsewhere. But it will underline how concerned many centralbankers...

Preliminary survey data for August, which were published today, suggest that economic growth remained slow but steady in advanced economies. Meanwhile, alternative survey evidence for the UK has been...