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Jeremy Stretch, head of FX strategy at CIBC, says the International Monetary Fund ate some "humble pie" when it upgraded Britain's growth forecast on Tuesday. more...

The world economy is set to grow at a sharply lower rate than originally forecast, a new report by the OECD said. more...

China's economy may have grown by 9.3 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier and consumer inflation will gradually fall to 4.6 percent in December, according to a Tsinghua University report whose results were published on Monday. more...

French retail and luxury group PPR page90PPR-FRfalsefalse43pricetruefalsefalsefalse0QuotefalsetrueChartfalsetrueNewsfalsetrueProfilefalsetrueAdd to Watchlistfalsetruetruehttp://api-cdn.cnbc.com/api/chart/chart.aspGE4true3 on Friday posted forecast-beating first-half sales and profits, pulled by...

European aerospace and defence group EADS* posted forecast-beating second-quarter profits and sales on Friday, amid strong demand for its Airbus aircraft, and confirmed its 2011 earnings forecast. more...

Nokia, the world's largest phone maker by volume, posted better-than-expected quarterly profit thanks to a major royalty boost from settling a patent dispute with Apple . more...

Singapore's April inflation slowed to 4.5 percent year-on-year from 5.0 percent in March, consistent with central bank and economists' forecasts that inflation had peaked in the first quarter. more...