Bloomberg The UK needs to cut 200,000 government jobs over the next couple of years to avoid adding billions to the national debt, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). Public-sector wages are on track to increase 5% this year, around half the current rate of inflation but higher than budgeted when spending plans were drawn up in ...

  Bloomberg The US trade deficit shrank for a fifth month in August to the smallest in more than a year, reflecting a decline in the value of imports that’s poised to lend support to economic growth in the third quarter. The trade gap in goods and services narrowed by $3.1 billion, or 4.3% from a month earlier, to $67.4 ...

  Bloomberg Toronto home prices dipped again in September and have now fallen as much as 17% from their spring peak, as evidence grows that buyers and sellers are growing wary of doing deals. The benchmark price for a home in Canada’s largest city fell a further 1.2% from August, adding to the string of declines that began in April, ...