{"id":7273,"date":"2017-09-19T16:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/09\/19\/world-markets-at-new-highs-uk-zero-hours-contracts-fall-business-live\/"},"modified":"2017-09-19T16:00:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T14:00:53","slug":"world-markets-at-new-highs-uk-zero-hours-contracts-fall-business-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=7273","title":{"rendered":"World markets at new highs; UK zero-hours contracts fall &#8211; business live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the day\u2019s economic and financial news, as global markets touch new record levels ahead of Wednesday\u2019s Federal Reserve meetingNumber of UK zero-hours contracts falls1.4m zero-hours contracts in use, down from 1.7mIntroduction: Markets keep going up&#8230;.Investors focused on the Fed tomorrow 3.00pm BST The outlook for global growth is positive, says ratings agency Fitch, but this could be tempered by the withdrawal of central banks\u2019 stimulus measure. In its latest global credit outlook report, Fitch says:Global rating outlooks remain on an improving trend and are on balance less negative that at the start of the year across most rating sectors&#8230;.However the improving outlook for global credit quality is underpinned by years of loose central bank monetary policy, including quantitative easing, as well as what are now the strongest world growth conditions since 2010. 2.36pm BST Ahead of Wednesday\u2019s decision from the US Federal Reserve on interest rates and the future of its monetary policy, Wall Street has opened at yet new heights.The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 0.15% at a record 22,366 while the S&amp;P has edged up 0.12% to a new high. Apart from the Fed meeting, the other main event exercising investors\u2019 minds is President Trump\u2019s speech at the United Nations. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2017\/sep\/19\/world-markets-new-peaks-eurozone-confidence-zew-business-live\" target=\"_blank\">World markets at new highs; UK zero-hours contracts fall &#8211; business live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the day\u2019s economic and financial news, as global markets touch new record levels ahead of Wednesday\u2019s Federal Reserve meetingNumber of UK zero-hours contracts falls1.4m zero-hours contracts in use, down from 1.7mIntroduction: Markets keep going up&#8230;.Investors focused on the Fed tomorrow 3.00pm BST The outlook for global growth is positive, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}