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  Inflation report: what the economists say

  16 Feb 2011: Economic experts reckon Mervyn King's downbeat tone means that if interest rates are raised, any increases won't happen until the second half of this year

• Merkel selects economic hawk to lead Bundesbank

  16 Feb 2011: German chancellor selects economic adviser Jens Weidmann, 42, as youngest ever head of the Bundesbank

• Bank of England governor talks down prospect of early interest rate rise

  16 Feb 2011: Presenting the Bank's quarterly inflation report, Mervyn King said some people were 'running ahead of themselves' on the timing of a rise from the current 0.5%

• Mervyn King is no man for a futile gesture

  16 Feb 2011: The Bank governor sounded far less inclined to raise interest rates today than he did in his letter to the chancellor - perhaps because he knows that one rate rise wouldn't be nearly sufficient to check inflation

• Unemployment benefit claimants constituency by constituency: full data

  16 Feb 2011:

  Unemployment is once more on the rise. These are the unemployment benefit claimant numbers in each of the parliamentary constituencies. Get them where you live

• Fewer Britons saving for a rainy day

  16 Feb 2011: Tough economic conditions, inflation and lower interest rates have contributed to a decline in savings, research reveals

• Who really benefits from China's trade with Latin America?

  16 Feb 2011: Annie Kelly: Beijing's deals with Latin America have reached $100bn, but some doubt the trade boom will have a positive impact on the region's 189 million poor

• Unexpected rise in UK unemployment

  16 Feb 2011:

  ONS says claimant count rose 2,400 to 1.46 million in January as women bore brunt of latest job losses

• Unemployment: what the economists say

  16 Feb 2011: Today's labour market statistics painted a bleak picture, with an unexpected rise in the number of people claiming jobseekers' allowance. Here is what economists made of the numbers

• Unemployment expected to have risen at the end of 2010

  16 Feb 2011: The Federation of Small Businesses called on the government to take measures to help firms create jobs

• Consumer confidence plunges after VAT hike

  16 Feb 2011: Consumers' confidence in spending fell at its fastest rate on record during January following the government's VAT hike, research indicated today.

• Bank of England inflation report to pave the way for interest rate rises

  16 Feb 2011: The City will be looking for more clues in today's inflation report as to what will happen to interest rates over coming months

• The Business podcast: India's booming economy

  Audio (20min 41sec), 16 Feb 2011:

  Our expert panel discuss India's ambitions to become an economic superpower. What are its prospects?

• Inflation rise: Grim and grimmer

  16 Feb 2011: Editorial: As Mervyn King noted, the Bank has been taken unawares by the scale of the increase in global food and energy prices

• World Bank warns of soaring food price dangers

  15 Feb 2011:

  A spike in global food prices has pushed millions more into poverty since last summer, said World Bank president Robert Zoellick

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