Macroeconomic News
CORRECTED-Pub chain Mitchells & Butlers posts flat sales on bad weather
(Corrects majority to largest shareholder in paragraph 6)LONDON, May 23 (Reuters) - Sales at British pub and[Thu 08:05]
UPDATE 1-Cash-and-carry wholesaler Booker's profit jumps 13 pct
* Full-year pretax profit rises 13 pct to 101.4 mln stg* Revenue rises 3.5 pct* Says trading in first seven weeks of current year ahead of[Thu 07:38]
Booker full-year profit jumps 13 pct
May 23 (Reuters) - Booker Group Plc, Britain's[Thu 06:33]
WRAPUP 5-Bernanke says more progress needed before stimulus pullback
* Bernanke touts benefits of Fed bond buying* Says end to purchases will depend on economy* Could trim bond buys at one of the "next few meetings"* If anything, "inflation is too low," Bernanke saysBy Pedro da Costa and Alister BullWASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve's[Wed 21:30]
WRAPUP 3-U.S. home sales close in on 3-1/2-year high
* Existing home sales rise 0.6 percent in April[Wed 20:59]
UPDATE 2-ECB can expand its tools to fight crisis -board member
* Policymaker says ECB must avoid deflation in euro zone* Unclear which new tools might be considered* Encouraging bank lending has 'particular prominence' in[Wed 20:58]
CORRECTED-TREASURIES-Yields jump as Bernanke remarks unnerve investors
(Corrects Bernanke's comments in the third paragraph to say[Wed 20:13]
TREASURIES OUTLOOK-Yields jump as Bernanke remarks unnerve investors
* Benchmark yields jump above 2 percent on Bernanke's QE[Wed 19:16]
UPDATE 1-Fed officials want more progress before bond tapering--minutes
WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - Many Federal Reserve[Wed 19:12]
ECB's Praet calls for caution on bank deleveraging
WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank[Wed 18:36]
