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  US Employment alert

  Moneycorp, 03 Feb 2012

  Since September 2010 US non-farm payrolls have gone up every month. Analysts were in agreement that the figures released today would show a 16th straight month of job creation. There was concern last autumn that the pace of jobs growth was not sufficient to keep pace with population growth.

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  UK Employment Alert

  Moneycorp, 18 Jan 2012

  Employment in Britain is at a more tolerable level than, say, Spain, where a fifth of the workforce is out of a job and two fifths of young people are unemployed. It is roughly in line with the United States, where the most recent figures put unemployment at 8.5%.

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  UK Inflation Alert

  Moneycorp, 17 Jan 2012

  A year ago, the UK figures put consumer price index (CPI) inflation at 3.7% for calendar 2010. As it was bound to do, the increase in the basic rate of value added tax in January 2011, from 17.5% to 20%, sent prices higher.

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  Bank of England Interest Rate Alert

  Moneycorp, 13 Jan 2012

  The Monetary Policy Committee decided this morning to keep the Bank Rate at 0.5% for a 35th consecutive month and to hold its fire on any extension to the Asset purchase programme which, by next month, will have spent £275bn on buying government and other sterling-denominated bonds.

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  European Central Bank Interest Rate Alert

  Moneycorp, 13 Jan 2012

  At each of his first two meetings in charge of the European Central Bank, newbie President Mario Draghi oversaw cuts in the ECB's benchmark Refinancing Rate that took it down from 1.5% to 1%.

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