A commissar like Wen Jiabao can not overcome the jeopardy in China today.

Worker productivity in the U.S. rebounded, growing at the fastest pace in nearly two years in the spring while wage pressures eased sharply, developments that should reduce inflation worries.

Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev today criticized the government of Prime Minister Almaz Atambaev and the National Bank of Kyrgyzstan for failing to coordinate their policies.

Business executives in India are the most optimistic in the world in terms of expectations for growth in Indian economy, their industries as well as improvement in inflation levels in their countries, a new McKinsey study shows.

The benchmark Hang Seng Index closed at a second consecutive record high on Monday, buoyed mainly by China-related firms following sharp gains in the Chinese mainland's stock market.

The Commerce Department reported on Friday that core consumer prices went up by 0.1% as it was expected in May, which kept core inflation within the Federal Reserve’s interests.

The Federal Reserve, saying that inflation remains its “predominant policy concern,” left its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 5.25 percent on Thursday and signaled that it would keep it at that level for some time, The New York Times reported.

This news release describes the results of the Bank of England's latest quarterly survey of public attitudes to inflation, undertaken in May 2007.

Hefty bank loans and share offerings by Russian companies have led to a huge wave of capital into the country this year, and it potentially brings the danger to lose control over inflation in the nation's oil-fueled economy, the World Bank said Wednesday.

This week marks the launch of the eighth year of the Interest Rate Challenge, a competition designed to give 16 to 18-year old students across the UK the opportunity to take on the role of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) and set the official interest rate for the UK to meet the inflation target of 2.0%.

In a lecture in London to the Society of Business Economists to mark the tenth anniversary of the Monetary Policy Committee, Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, examines the improvement in the UK's economic performance over the past 10 years and the role played in that by the MPC.

Output growth gained further pace across the 10 new European Union member states in 2006, but is likely to slow down in 2007, according to the latest World Bank EU8+2 Regular Economic Report.