In October 2013 compared with October 2012, production of intermediate goods grew by 1.6% in the euro area and by 2.0% in the EU28. Capital goods rose by 1.2% and 2.1% respectively. Non-durable...

Following the Distribution and Recovery Programme carried out last September, the weight of books that Yellow Pages (Malta) Ltd recycled this year amounted to 107 tons which is equivalent to five, 20...

Following yesterday’s Fed decision to cut its bonds purchase program by $10 billion per month, Gold price decreases and is currently breaking the 1211.3$/ounce level....

The total nominal hourly labour costs in Malta increased by 2.1% in Q3, after having increased by 3.5% in Q2, by 5.3% in Q1 and 3.7% in Q4 2012, Eurostat said this week.   Even so, however,...

Roughly two weeks ago, or less, this paper sent questions to all the banks in Malta asking them whether they were going to follow the plea made by the Governor of the Central Bank, Professor Josef...

Yesterday all eyes were turned to the FOMC meeting with one big question: will the Federal Reserve start tapering its quantitative easing program and if yes, by how much?The answer was “yes”; the Fed...

AUD/USD fell to new lows for the calendar year after the FOMC decision last night. After the lows were hit we saw some profit taking, the move did not accelerate when new lows were reached....

The EUR/USD traded in a volatile fashion after the FOMC last night, swinging up and down in a 100 pip range before finally giving in to the downside. Since the pair was massively overbought in the...

Our bullish stance yesterday ahead of the FOMC decision proved to be correct (“This so called “V-reversal” could be the start of a new round of yen weakness (USD/JPY strength). As long as the pair...

After more than a year of hard bargaining, European finance ministers on Wednesday reached a political agreement on a final piece of the bloc's planned banking union, which is the most ambitious...