LONDON, Nov 11 (Reuters) – The global economy faces an
uneasy end to a difficult year as widespread policy uncertainty
that is blunting the benefit of an ultra-loose monetary stance
shows no sign of lifting.

To be sure, the re-election of U.S. President Barack Obama
has answered one critical question. And consumer sentiment in
America is at the highest level since the onset of the great
financial crisis.

LONDON (Reuters) – In the politically packed days ahead, an election, a coronation and a two-part parliamentary vote each has the potential to alter the course of the global economy for years to come.

The election, of course, is on Tuesday for the White House and Congress. Two days later, China’s ruling Communist party begins the 18th congress in its history.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Europe has won the immediate battle to save the euro, but the war to make the single currency sustainable in the long run has only just begun.

Relief in Brussels is palpable: the European Central Bank’s conditional promise to act as buyer of last resort for the bonds of troubled euro zone members has removed an existential threat, at least for the time being.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Europe has won the immediate battle to save the euro, but the war to make the single currency sustainable in the long run has only just begun.

Relief in Brussels is palpable: the European Central Bank’s conditional promise to act as buyer of last resort for the bonds of troubled euro zone members has removed an existential threat, at least for the time being.

By Alan Wheatley, Global Economics Correspondent

(Reuters) – The last employment report before the U.S. presidential election is likely to have something for everyone – for those bullish and bearish on the economy and for Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

Non-farm payrolls in October are forecast to have risen 124,000, barely more than September’s 114,000 gain, according to 78 economists polled by Reuters. The unemployment rate probably edged back up to 7.9 percent after falling to 7.8 percent from 8.1 percent last month. The figures are due on Friday.

Oct 28 (Reuters) – The last employment report before the
U.S. presidential election is likely to have something for
everyone – for those bullish and bearish on the economy and for
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

Non-farm payrolls in October are forecast to have risen
124,000, barely more than September’s 114,000 gain, according to
78 economists polled by Reuters. The unemployment rate probably
edged back up to 7.9 percent after falling to 7.8 percent from
8.1 percent last month. The figures are due on Friday.

LONDON (Reuters) – The last employment report before the U.S. presidential election is likely to have something for everyone – for those bullish and bearish on the economy and for Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

Non-farm payrolls in October are forecast to have risen 124,000, barely more than September’s 114,000 gain, according to 78 economists polled by Reuters. The unemployment rate probably edged back up to 7.9 percent after falling to 7.8 percent from 8.1 percent last month. The figures are due on Friday.

LONDON (Reuters) – Slowly but surely, the global economy is witnessing a modest parting of the ways as the United States pulls ahead of a euro zone still shell-shocked by its debt and banking crisis.

To be sure, a slew of reports this week will show neither America nor Europe in great shape.

BOLOGNA, Italy (Reuters) – It’s not long into a chat with an Italian businessmen before talk turns to how a costly state is sucking the air out of Europe’s third-largest economy, endangering the euro along the way.

“In the end we’re asking for only one thing: a normal government for a normal country,” said Maurizio Marchesini, the president of Confindustria, Italy’s main employers’ association, in the wealthy north-central region of Emilia-Romagna.

BOLOGNA, Italy, Oct 18 (Reuters) – Companies, banks and
local authorities are seeking innovative ways to help family
firms in Italy’s Emilia-Romagna to survive a credit crunch
brought on by the euro zone debt crisis.

The search for solutions, which include partial loan
guarantees and steps to bolster the creditworthiness of small
suppliers, reflects historically strong community links in the
region of north-central Italy.